From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, me@wilfred.me.uk, stefan@marxist.se,
mardani29@yahoo.es
Subject: Re: Helpful in Emacs?
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 09:06:53 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83czphj75u.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM9PR09MB49776136CF7247B2A985A8A196D59@AM9PR09MB4977.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> (message from Arthur Miller on Thu, 09 Sep 2021 22:23:08 +0200)
> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 22:23:08 +0200
> Cc: me@wilfred.me.uk, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>,
> Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> "xref-find-references: This command is included in Emacs 25.1, but it's based on
> a text search. It is confused by comments and strings, and cannot distinguish
> between functions and variables."
This is inaccurate and misleading. It might be true for the default
back-end (which AFAIR is Grep), but certainly not for all of them.
What exactly is a "reference" is determined by the back-end search
tool, and some of them understand quite a lot of the programming
language of the source files.
So please correct that blog to avoid misleading people.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-10 6:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-09 10:57 Helpful in Emacs? Arthur Miller
2021-09-09 11:34 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-09 12:35 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-09 15:21 ` Daniel Martín
2021-09-09 15:48 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-10 6:20 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-10 7:11 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-10 7:19 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-10 7:58 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-10 8:14 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2021-09-10 12:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-10 7:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-10 8:00 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-10 11:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-10 11:41 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-09 19:21 ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-09-09 19:51 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-09 20:23 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-09 22:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-10 0:52 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-10 6:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-10 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-09-10 6:21 ` Arthur Miller
2021-09-10 6:30 ` Juri Linkov
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