bug#71245: 2024-03-17; Populate `semantic-symref-filepattern-alist'

[Ikumi Keita]

Hi David,

>>>>> David Fussner <dfussner@googlemail.com> writes:
> 1. How false are these false positives? If it's a project with plain
> TeX and LaTeX files, there's always a certain amount of overlap
> anyway, and that includes amsTeX, too. ConTeXt is another problem, so
> it will depend somewhat on the nature of the project.

> 2. If you create a TAGS file in the project, then typically that will
> cover all the .tex files, too, so the other xref commands may find
> hits across the various TeX varieties, and therefore
> `xref-find-references' won't be an outlier in that respect.

> 3. I also feel -- quite strongly as it happens -- that false negatives
> are worse than false positives. If you've a .tex file open and do M-?
> in it then you won't even see the hit point is on, but only hits from
> whatever other file extensions happen to belong to the initial file's
> major mode. Currently, in the case of plain TeX or ams TeX, that means
> no hits, which is sort of weird and very frustrating when you're
> looking at one on your screen. In a LaTeX .tex file you'll also not
> get the hit you're actually looking at on your screen, but this might
> be disguised by hits from other file extensions. I think this is much
> more misleading than any false positives, but I concede that others
> may not feel as strongly about this as I do.

Thank you for your reply. I understand your concern about false
negatives and think that I'll apply your patch to AUCTeX repository if
there are no objections. There would be only small amount of false
positives under practical situations and we can add a new customize
option mentioned in my previous message if there are many complaints
about them anyway.

Let's wait for 3-4 days to see whether there are objections or not.

Regards,
Ikumi Keita
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