From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: wbe@psr.com, 28403@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 03:44:28 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b96456d4-aa74-5633-9977-5b17e3fa6f59@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zi9xmcec.fsf@gnu.org>
On 9/14/17 8:13 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I just feel that having a user-friendly defcustom would be more
> future-proof. Like I said: it's a fire escape. Every complex feature
> needs one.
My point is if we document it enough for the majority of the users to
find it, it would also make it more likely that they go the fire escape
route instead of using etags in the right way. And then get some other
wrong impression about xref-find-definitions.
>> Maybe the manual should advertise the necessity to call etags with
>> --regexp in certain cases more prominently instead.
>
> Until very recently, --regex didn't even document the
> back-substitution feature it provides. So we still have a way to go
> in that direction.
No argument from me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-19 0:44 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 [this message]
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
2017-09-11 16:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-14 17:37 ` Winston
2017-09-14 22:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
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