On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@gnu.org> wrote:

I think it would be good to provide a generic M-. (and M-*, ..)
binding that several backends (etags, symbol-file, ...) can then
use.

That would be very nice indeed.

+1. There was a discussion[0] about this topic last year and

apparent agreement in principle, but the details are yet to be

worked out. At least two implementations exist already, one

being the patch Leo submitted with that bug and the other being

the `elisp-slime-nav' package I mentioned in that thread (and

whose author has also assigned copyright).

If we do define a standard set of source navigation key bindings,

I hope it includes one for jumping to symbols' references. Unlike

M-. for jumping to definitions, jumping to references doesn't seem

to have a standard binding, even though it's often very handy.

[0] http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=15641

Josh