Re: [Emacs-diffs] master abd1825: Ensure that we can find definitions when buffer is narrowed

[Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>]

On 12/11/17 10:23 PM, Charles A. Roelli wrote:

> Thanks for fixing this.  If I may suggest it, it might also be useful
> for these functions to respect `widen-automatically':

Probably not find-function-search-for-symbol though?

>    widen-automatically is a variable defined in ‘simple.el’.
>    Its value is t
> 
>    Documentation:
>    Non-nil means it is ok for commands to call ‘widen’ when they want to.
>    Some commands will do this in order to go to positions outside
>    the current accessible part of the buffer.
> 
>    If ‘widen-automatically’ is nil, these commands will do something else
>    as a fallback, and won’t change the buffer bounds.

I wonder if we're using this variable in all the places we should.

A recent, heated discussion comes to mind.