From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Shitikanth <shitikanth1@gmail.com>
Cc: 32389@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32389: Default behaviour of xref-find-references is inconsistent with the documentation
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2018 21:26:40 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mutyowwv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALjXJSSu+jXdoMFNqpnOga5BpmGZkzUBNQ2PEnJzqDsWMQN2Rw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Shitikanth on Tue, 7 Aug 2018 23:45:42 +0530)
> From: Shitikanth <shitikanth1@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 23:45:42 +0530
>
> I, for one, feel that this has become more complex than it needs to be. Since C-u M-?
> gives the option to force a prompt anyway, the default behaviour should be for M-?
> to not show a prompt unless needed (that is if the xref-backend is not able to find
> an identifier at point).
You are arguing for a change in the default behavior, something that
we don't usually do based on a single opinion. You can always
customize xref-prompt-for-identifier on your system to get this
behavior for yourself; changing that for everyone requires some kind
of user poll, at least.
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2018-08-07 8:55 bug#32389: Default behaviour of xref-find-references is inconsistent with the documentation Shitikanth
2018-08-07 16:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2018-08-07 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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