From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Arthur Miller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Helpful in Emacs? 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envelope-from=arthur.miller@live.com; helo=EUR01-HE1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:274494 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Arthur Miller >> Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 22:23:08 +0200 >> Cc: me@wilfred.me.uk, Stefan Kangas , >> Emacs developers >> >> "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. That is not my blog, that is quoated from the elisp-refs package: https://github.com/Wilfred/elisp-refs I made it clear it was a quote the first time I quoted, but it seems that has lost in further quoting of my original message. The original author is CC:ed, so hopefully he sees this.