From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Gutov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bad moves with xref-find-definitions Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 18:12:32 +0300 Message-ID: <553D0060.2020001@yandex.ru> References: <87h9s6c27z.fsf@gmail.com> <87zj5wnlyt.fsf@gmail.com> <87zj5vm8h3.fsf@gmail.com> <83a8xvx7si.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1430061198 17318 80.91.229.3 (26 Apr 2015 15:13:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 15:13:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , Vitalie Spinu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 26 17:13:13 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YmOF6-0005Ro-MW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Apr 2015 17:13:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51076 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YmOF5-0006bP-Pf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Apr 2015 11:13:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41199) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YmOEu-0006bK-T2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Apr 2015 11:13:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YmOEp-0002fJ-UE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Apr 2015 11:13:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wi0-x229.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::229]:33515) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YmOEp-0002ab-Mr; Sun, 26 Apr 2015 11:12:55 -0400 Original-Received: by wiax7 with SMTP id x7so66589643wia.0; Sun, 26 Apr 2015 08:12:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=WDZx+9mdb1RDiUw1zfFZXNvEfcZeP7yI2K6phIae93I=; b=lT1IyytjclfRlitTIqbfF4YY5pkOKvazhVfN1EL+PVe8nnix6BQi4xd8k8cyrv2F/B HdlhpvcHkDc6feVIHTMop9htTOmVGh7FOAaRpQPIH31EtlHp94cOHIbXjAYnrP+ev0lt j101JXWy25X4Wgj8JVMgO5ajxX+7UNX80TBVCiTE1pSQCf65shAJoMSMenqc9Vt9egR8 mK2iG6UJ3pKdahDhTJm3chbKMMC1gJHLvowR7jgHykC/ogmi2Bbmq667/BLVe/ZJ2HMd kWlIxWG3QGAWmyPU429bOL5z/QL8G2t3Exw9IL/OdEZu3ni9sP6To2sSDQ+dz37TSEk8 MHTw== X-Received: by 10.180.99.166 with SMTP id er6mr13346360wib.58.1430061157639; Sun, 26 Apr 2015 08:12:37 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.2] ([82.102.93.54]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id n1sm7708982wix.0.2015.04.26.08.12.36 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 26 Apr 2015 08:12:37 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/36.0 In-Reply-To: <83a8xvx7si.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c05::229 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:185913 Archived-At: On 04/26/2015 05:50 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > This is backwards, sorry. M-. should be intelligent enough not to > signal errors in this situation, and neither should it require users > to navigate needlessly. No other feature that is sensitive to "the > thing at point" behaves like that, AFAIR. Yes, this does not make sense to me either. > If this issue is controversial among users, let's have a user option > to control the default behavior -- either always prompt and use the > symbol at point, if any, for the default value, or prompt only when > there's no usable symbol at point. The option has been added.