From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: etags to xref changed navigation Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 21:41:47 +0300 Message-ID: <865xw753bo.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87sezdqvox.fsf@vps.thesusis.net> <86edax5s9t.fsf@gnu.org> <86bk615ho9.fsf@gnu.org> <87cyqg6ma8.fsf@vps.thesusis.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24745"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 23 20:42:31 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rzL65-0006GX-BQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2024 20:42:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rzL5U-0002Au-BO; Tue, 23 Apr 2024 14:41:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rzL5S-0002A5-45 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2024 14:41:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rzL5R-0007q6-SF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2024 14:41:49 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=5/PfQlKgqHHEFvSOesQKeqyLmZkVaCvC+l2GEYcdcMI=; b=FeT0RkOVJf7z KzyQlK1CYHP8rOOSlvXxfXtTv8UJbliVmV06OQ89PSvC5ipo80taBpq6YEEnwY0mpg9mia45kVGJ0 IbiKA8nygLtbEqrXBCy4KsY9JqRO4v6hxPqqOqdA/8tCFQle0kfN78pduoHc6+FSwrTpGu+lYD+wJ mXmutaH4NH7aoq+DnPqBlS1mDd34mFwomazhZtol/0hn6Mvvhpk9JOVmCo1txjdBCYbjF5bkh3P5+ s6MxkGUmV1q8HcDa4ZfdQhOt6dmojG5uTOZxSAgOvFMsn0STs00Kk0sjOoDvd2ruiN7n5VGEe/jk1 Dr/Axc1WvK0fHzNZ4xtAog==; In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 23 Apr 2024 14:29:31 -0400) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:146454 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 14:29:31 -0400 > > >> I'm not sure what the problems would be, concretely, but we can always > >> solve the problem by making the behavior optional. > > I think the reason why it was on M-, before was because repeated > > M-. couldn't tell whether you wanted the next, or to start a new search > > for whatever point is on now. > > That's also my understanding, and I'm suggesting that it distinguishes > the two by checking if `M-.` is used consecutively or not The problem with this proposal is that any command in-between will break the chain. One must remember not event to move point. That could well be problematic: for example, imagine that I'm not sure whether I want the current candidate, and to be sure I need to scroll the window a bit, because what M-. displayed doesn't show enough (e.g., because the window is too small).