From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: 35737@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35737: xref--original-command
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 00:04:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvdvpgzj.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56943df5-f366-a8af-cb95-a40c244da837@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Wed, 15 May 2019 04:07:53 +0300")
>> Remembering the command that created the *xref* buffer
>> will allow such customization to treat RET differently,
>> i.e. it makes sense for RET to quit the transient xref buffer
>> displayed momentarily while navigating code with xref-find-definitions,
>> whereas leaving the xref buffer visible while navigating matches
>> in the xref buffer created by e.g. project-find-regexp:
>>
>> (define-key xref--button-map [(control ?m)]
>> (lambda ()
>> (interactive)
>> (if (memq xref--original-command '(xref-find-definitions))
>> (call-interactively 'xref-quit-and-goto-xref)
>> (call-interactively 'xref-goto-xref))))
>
> I'm all for customizability, but as I said in a past discussion on the
> subject, I don't think this by itself would be a good default behavior.
I don't propose to change its default behavior. Just allowing its
customization would be good.
> Having two buffers that looks basically the same but react to RET
> differently is not great for usability.
Using display-buffer-in-direction, they don't look the same: after
customization xref-find-definitions can display the xref buffer below,
whereas other xref command can display in the side window.
>> Better ideas?
>
> Ideally, the "transient" buffer should look differently from the
> "persistent" one.
>
> To take VS Code as an example (I just to see how it behaves exactly),
> a search for references opens search results in the sidebar.
Emacs has side windows too.
> Whereas for definitions they have both "Go To Definition" and "Peek
> Definition". The latter shows the definitions kind of inline, in
> a not-exactly-a-popup kind of way
> (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55599177/go-to-definition-in-vscode-preview-window-ruins-the-edito),
> and there, if you type RET, that triggers navigation to the selected
> definition. "Go To Definition", when there are several definitions, also
> switches to "Peek" mode by default.
>
> Not sure how best to implement this different kind of display in Emacs, but
> the idea makes a lot of sense to me.
>
> In Sublime, IIRC, for this they used the dropdown from their
> top-of-the-window command line, the same one that becomes active once one
> presses Ctrl-P.
We have Completions for the same purpose.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-15 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-14 20:53 bug#35737: xref--original-command Juri Linkov
2019-05-15 1:07 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-05-15 21:04 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2019-05-15 22:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-05-16 19:58 ` Juri Linkov
2019-05-24 1:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-05-24 18:40 ` Juri Linkov
2019-05-24 22:48 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-05-27 19:59 ` Juri Linkov
2019-05-27 21:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-05-27 23:21 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-05-28 2:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-28 7:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-05-28 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-28 20:30 ` Juri Linkov
2019-05-30 17:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-06-09 23:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
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