From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>, 62229@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62229: 29.0.60; It's no longer possible to customize the xref ring size
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2023 02:03:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7acf916f-aab8-2ca3-b503-2c39e77ec168@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ierh6ukjqit.fsf@janestreet.com>
Hi!
On 17/03/2023 00:11, Spencer Baugh wrote:
>
> Emacs 28 had the function xref-set-marker-ring-length and the
> customizable variable xref-marker-ring-length which allowed growing
> the amount of history kept by xref.
>
> This feature has been lost in Emacs 29; that variable has been
> obsoleted with no replacement.
>
> It's not clear, looking at the change, whether this is because the
> size is now infinite or not. The same commit that obsoleted that
> variable added the similar tags-location-ring-length. However that
> variable has no docstring, no customize hooks, and setting it has no
> effect unless tags-reset-tags-tables is called.
>
> At the very least, all this should be documented better, and the
> obsoleting of this function and variable should be mentioned in NEWS.
> If the history is indeed infinite now, that should be mentioned in
> NEWS as well.
It is indeed infinite now, and limiting it would require additional effort.
Would you like to propose a patch for NEWS? I.e. describe it the way you
prefer it had been described.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-17 0:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-16 22:11 bug#62229: 29.0.60; It's no longer possible to customize the xref ring size Spencer Baugh
2023-03-17 0:03 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2023-03-17 8:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-17 12:02 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-03-17 12:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
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