Re: xref buffer and default-directory

[Dmitry Gutov]

Hi Matthias,

On 08.01.2021 19:15, Matthias Meulien wrote:
> Hi, I am a heavy and happy user of project-find-regexp (through C-x p g).

Excellent!

> Sometime while reading search results from the *xref* buffer I realize 
> that I should perform another search; I thus press C-x p g again from 
> the *xref* buffer. But it looks like the local value of 
> default-directory isn't related to the last search context. And I am 
> presented search results of an unrelated project. It's confusing and 
> sometimes I take time to realize that am not reading the search results 
> of the right project! Are you experiencing the same problem?

Looks like I've never really tried this exact scenario before (I almost 
always search for the string at point, and that means switching to 
another buffer first).

> It looks like the value of default-directory for the *xref* buffer is 
> not changed between searches. Is this correct? Should we change this 
> behavior?

It was a bug (the default-directory value stayed on from the very first 
search you did in the current Emacs session). Should be fixed now in 
6e73e07a6f.

Thanks for the report.