From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 65631@debbugs.gnu.org, dmitry@gutov.dev
Subject: bug#65631: Xref updates stack in case of error
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 20:16:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86leds30yw.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r0nkfos1.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 30 Aug 2023 20:01:02 +0300")
>> 1. move point to any word
>> 2. type 'M-.' (xref-find-definitions)
>> 3. an error is displayed correctly "No definitions found for: This"
>>
>> But the problem is that an unrecognized word is added to the xref stack.
>> So the context menu shows "Go Back", and 'M-,' (xref-go-back) goes back
>> to that word.
>
> FWIW, I'm not sure this is necessarily a bug. It looks like a bug in
> your case, because you deliberately tricked Xref into using a word
> that is definitely not a program symbol. But that is not the case in
> a more reasonable situation, where point is on a symbol, but for some
> reason the symbol's definition is not found, e.g., because the TAGS
> table needs to be regenerated.
In case of error, point doesn't move. So there is no need to go back.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-30 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-30 16:44 bug#65631: Xref updates stack in case of error Juri Linkov
2023-08-30 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-30 17:16 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2023-08-31 0:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-08-31 16:33 ` Juri Linkov
2023-09-01 1:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-09-01 13:25 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-09-02 2:00 ` Dmitry Gutov
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