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
next prev 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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