From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
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: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 15:55:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sfjuecyw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7c0849be-145e-e073-49b5-63749e8d8282@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Tue, 11 Oct 2022 15:44:18 +0300)
> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 15:44:18 +0300
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
>
> On 11.10.2022 15:17, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> >>> Its problem is that it
> >>> states the fact, but doesn't attempt to explain it, and thus doesn't
> >>> give a clue what the user did wrong and how to fix that.
> >>
> >> How does one explain that we cannot replace in xref-find-definitions
> >> results?
> >
> > That's what the "subset of matches of identifier" part attempts to do.
>
> A high-level and not very accurate description, because it's only
> relevant for the difference between xref-find-definitions vs
> xref-find-references, but not when the *-find-regexp commands come into
> play.
I know. As I said, suggestions for better wording will be moist
welcome.
> But we can try to be helpful by offering an alternative:
>
> Cannot replace in this search; to rename a symbol, invoke
> \\[xref-find-references] first
But then we'd need to name the other 2 commands as well, to be
accurate, yes?
> >> Perhaps I should remind that xref-find-definitions is still the main
> >> exception -- where this command doesn't work.
> >
> > But not the only one?
>
> The only known one, so far.
So maybe just saying
Cannot do global replacement using results of \\[xref-find-definitions]
should be okay?
> That would mean that one 'r' can work in lsp-mode's
> xref-find-definitions results (they define a bunch of custom commands
> like lsp-find-definition and lsp-find-declaration, but that probably
> doesn't matter). Not sure if we should do something about that.
If 'r' happens to work in that case, we don't have to worry about the
error message, right?
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Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
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
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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