From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs 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 Message-ID: <7acf916f-aab8-2ca3-b503-2c39e77ec168@yandex.ru> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27076"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.8.0 To: Spencer Baugh , 62229@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 17 01:04:16 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pcxZw-0006uH-8k for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Thu, 16 Mar 2023 17:03:48 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.0.2] ([85.132.229.92]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id p9-20020a05600c468900b003ed5909aab2sm3010680wmo.25.2023.03.16.17.03.47 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 16 Mar 2023 17:03:47 -0700 (PDT) Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:258043 Archived-At: 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.