From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: wbe@psr.com, 28403@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 06:58:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wp4vgx0t.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b96456d4-aa74-5633-9977-5b17e3fa6f59@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Tue, 19 Sep 2017 03:44:28 +0300)
> Cc: wbe@psr.com, 28403@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 03:44:28 +0300
>
> On 9/14/17 8:13 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > I just feel that having a user-friendly defcustom would be more
> > future-proof. Like I said: it's a fire escape. Every complex feature
> > needs one.
>
> My point is if we document it enough for the majority of the users to
> find it, it would also make it more likely that they go the fire escape
> route instead of using etags in the right way. And then get some other
> wrong impression about xref-find-definitions.
Fire escapes don't have to be documented, just pointed out when and if
someone really needs them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-19 3:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-09 22:40 bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions doesn't; bug? Winston
2017-09-09 22:58 ` Drew Adams
2017-09-09 23:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-10 2:50 ` bug#28403: 25.2; find-tag works, but xref-find-definitions Winston
2017-09-10 9:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-10 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-10 21:43 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-11 2:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-11 8:58 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-11 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-12 23:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-13 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-14 12:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-14 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-19 0:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-19 3:58 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-09-10 14:52 ` Winston
2017-09-10 18:27 ` Winston
2017-09-10 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-10 19:06 ` Winston
2017-09-10 19:10 ` Winston
2017-09-10 20:12 ` Winston
2017-09-11 2:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-10 21:19 ` Winston
2017-09-10 21:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-09-11 2:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-11 3:19 ` Winston
2017-09-11 4:05 ` Winston
2017-09-11 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-11 4:11 ` Winston
2017-09-11 5:02 ` Winston
2017-09-11 16:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-09-14 17:37 ` Winston
2017-09-14 22:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
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