From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: xref-query-replace-in-results error message after xref-find-definitions, was: Re: bug#58158: 29.0.50; [overlay] Interval tree iteration considered harmful
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:47:15 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ca55cea-712b-2e89-cdac-3a1893e3c53e@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831qrdei3t.fsf@gnu.org>
On 12.10.2022 08:17, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Let's drop the "global" adjective, though: whether the command works
>> "globally", "locally", or etc, depends on how the user made the search.
> The "global" part is important, though: it's supposed to hint on why
> find-definition results cannot be used. The opposite of "global" here
> is "partial", not "local". If you can suggest a better word for
> "global" here, please do.
I think you're trying hard to make it clearer, but it still won't have
100% the intended effect.
And it makes the error more likely to confuse the user and make them
misunderstand how things work:
1) Saying "Cannot perform global replacement in find-definition
results", with the explicit qualifier "global", potentially implies that
a "local" replacement in find-definition results can be done. But it
cannot. We can't do either currently for technical reasons.
We don't want to do "local" replacements in find-definition results also
for logical reasons, but that's just the reason why we're not in a hurry
to remove the technical limitation.
2) The message implies 'r' is limited to "global" replacement. But it
can easily do "partial" replacement, as long as the command that
produces the list returns "match xrefs". dired-do-find-regexp, for
example. Or project-find-regexp, when called with C-u, and the user
specifies a specific directory. They will return a "partial" list of
matches, compared to the full project search.
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2022-09-29 5:29 bug#58158: 29.0.50; [overlay] Interval tree iteration considered harmful Gerd Möllmann
2022-09-29 6:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-29 7:03 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-09-29 8:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-29 9:09 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-09-29 9:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-29 10:05 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-09-29 10:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-29 11:33 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-09-29 13:10 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-29 13:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-29 16:48 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-29 13:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-29 14:15 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-09-29 14:37 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-09-29 22:09 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-30 5:28 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-09-30 6:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-30 11:31 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-09-30 18:29 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-02 8:06 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-06 22:36 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-10-07 19:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-08 18:50 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-10-10 8:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-11 2:12 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-10-11 6:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-11 11:36 ` xref-query-replace-in-results error message after xref-find-definitions, was: " Dmitry Gutov
2022-10-11 11:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-11 12:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-10-11 12:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-11 12:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-10-11 12:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-11 14:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-10-11 16:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-11 16:41 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-10-11 16:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-11 20:31 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-10-12 5:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-12 10:06 ` John Yates
2022-10-12 10:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <CAJnXXogKsM=gMTFi2NivDMHW4A3EBtBtsNDBV3o5vcu2xXfuvw@mail.gmail.com>
2022-10-12 13:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-12 16:12 ` John Yates
2022-10-12 13:47 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2022-10-12 14:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-11 14:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-11 14:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-11 15:07 ` Dmitry Gutov
2022-10-11 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-30 13:25 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-30 14:08 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-09-30 15:25 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-30 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-30 17:11 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-01 5:06 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-01 13:54 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-02 8:22 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-02 16:32 ` Andreas Politz
2022-10-03 4:35 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-04 10:50 ` Andreas Politz
2022-10-01 7:25 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-01 10:55 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-01 14:01 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-29 16:40 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-01 1:57 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-01 7:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-06 22:26 ` Matt Armstrong
2023-10-06 13:14 ` Gerd Möllmann
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