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From: "Daniel Martín via \"Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
To: "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Poll: Change xref-show-definitions-function's default?
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2021 00:54:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1wnwtwp87.fsf@yahoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6trjbat.fsf@gmail.com> ("João Távora"'s message of "Sat, 02 Jan 2021 21:09:30 +0000")

João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:

>
> Yep, the syntax feels clunky to me. Some things don't lend themselves
> well to representation in a flat list, and definitions from files --
> which happen on a many-to-many relationship -- are one of them.
>
> Though in fairness you can skip the TAB-pressing if you use another
> completing-read interface, such as fido-mode.
>

Yes, I suggested that assuming the default Emacs completion.  IMO, a new
buffer is what feels more "natural" in that case.  Emacs handles them
well and users can bury them if needed.

Even if not many people use the default Emacs completion, I think
xref-show-definitions-function should default to something that feels
right for them.  Alternative completion interfaces could easily default
to completing-read if they think the UX would be better.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-03 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-29 18:28 Poll: Change xref-show-definitions-function's default? Dmitry Gutov
2020-12-30  3:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-31 13:06 ` Daniel Martín
2021-01-01 12:25   ` Zhiwei Chen
2021-01-01 12:46     ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-01 13:33   ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-02 21:09   ` João Távora
2021-01-03 23:54     ` Daniel Martín via "Emacs development discussions. [this message]
2021-01-03 23:58       ` João Távora
2021-01-04  0:07         ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-04  8:48           ` João Távora
2021-01-04 11:16             ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-04 11:24               ` João Távora
2021-01-04 11:42                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-01  7:59 ` martin rudalics
2021-01-01 12:17   ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-02 10:26   ` Philip K.
2021-01-02 15:43     ` martin rudalics
2021-01-02 17:25       ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-03  8:39         ` martin rudalics
2021-01-03 17:43           ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-02 10:24 ` Philip K.
2021-01-02 11:08   ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-04 12:12 ` Philip K.
2021-01-04 12:22   ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-04 14:21     ` Philip K.
2021-01-04 16:14       ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-04 17:42 ` Juri Linkov
2021-01-04 18:41   ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-06 18:30     ` Juri Linkov
2021-01-06 20:55       ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-07 17:47         ` Juri Linkov
2021-01-09  0:35           ` Dmitry Gutov

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