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From: Winston <wbe@psr.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 28403@debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru
Subject: bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 01:02 EDT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201709110503.v8B531g1020853@psr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201709092240.v89MeFUo014854@psr.com>

Eli asked:
> I guess we can now close the bug report?

From my standpoint, yes.

However, since xref-find-definitions is not a drop-in replacement for
find-tag (differences incl. find partial name differs, goes to the
string at (point) without prompting, etc.), I probably won't be the last
person running into the differences.

Perhaps the simplest solution is to expand the documentation section of
xref-find-definitions with text such as the following (corrected for
anything I've got wrong below).  :-)

----------

xref-find-definitions differs from find-tag several ways:
* find-tag always prompted for a name, with the string at (point) as
  the default name.  With no argument, xref-find-definitions does not
  prompt, and tries immediately to go to a tag with that default name.
  Use (setq xref-prompt-for-identifier t) to force prompting. 
* find-tag allowed partial names.  xref-find-definitions does not.
  Use TAB after a partial name in a prompt for completion(s).
* If find-tag finds your tags OK but xref-find-definitions does not, you
  may need to use --regexp with etags to help it identify the tag name.
  (See etags man page.)  If even that doesn't help, try
							{whatever Dmitry
  and Eli decide is a good long-term easy way to add '(tag-symbol-match-p)
  to etags-xref-find-definitions-tag-order}.

----------

Thanks for your help!  HTH,
 -WBE





  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-11  5:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-09 22:40 bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions doesn't; bug? Winston
2017-09-09 22:58 ` Drew Adams
2017-09-09 23:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-10  2:50 ` bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions Winston
2017-09-10  9:01   ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-10 14:29   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-10 21:43     ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-11  2:38       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-11  8:58         ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-11 14:43           ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 23:40             ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-13 15:32               ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-14 12:13                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-14 17:13                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-19  0:44                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-19  3:58                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-10 14:52 ` Winston
2017-09-10 18:27 ` Winston
2017-09-10 19:09   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-10 19:06 ` Winston
2017-09-10 19:10 ` Winston
2017-09-10 20:12 ` Winston
2017-09-11  2:31   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-10 21:19 ` Winston
2017-09-10 21:35   ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-11  2:34   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-11  3:19 ` Winston
2017-09-11  4:05 ` Winston
2017-09-11 16:23   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-11  4:11 ` Winston
2017-09-11  5:02 ` Winston [this message]
2017-09-11 16:51   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-14 17:37 ` Winston
2017-09-14 22:08   ` Dmitry Gutov

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