From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Phillip Susi <phill@thesusis.net>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: etags to xref changed navigation
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 00:30:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <506e0468-3a17-4918-ad86-ec712db75208@gutov.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvil06yv7n.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On 25/04/2024 06:34, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Not sure which part of my above-quoted text isn't clear: the ambiguity
> would be "hand waved" away by saying that when the users hits `M-.` without
> doing anything else in between, they are telling Emacs to keep looking
> for the same symbol. If they want to start a new search, they should
> break the sequence, e.g. with `C-g` or `C-f C-b`, you name it.
>
> IME in most languages `M-.` usually jumps to a symbol which you will
> rarely want to use for a new search.
"Handwaved" indeed, though I'm guessing some singular cases would remain
where this is different. So the proposed UI sounds "wrong", to me at least.
I wouldn't object to an extra mode or a user option, though. Since
indeed what you are suggesting would work like the user expects 99% of
the time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-25 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-22 15:11 etags to xref changed navigation Phillip Susi
2024-04-22 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-22 16:00 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-04-22 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-23 1:39 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-04-23 17:06 ` Phillip Susi
2024-04-23 18:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-04-23 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-24 2:07 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-04-24 6:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-25 0:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-04-25 3:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-04-25 21:30 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2024-04-23 17:02 ` Phillip Susi
2024-04-23 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-04-22 17:48 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-04-23 17:17 ` Phillip Susi
2024-04-23 19:33 ` Philip Kaludercic
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