From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ilya Zakharevich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: etags: M-. jump to the tag(called func), but then how can i jump BACK(the calling line)? Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 23:12:37 +0000 (UTC) Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. Message-ID: References: <1126436508.461480.28080@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <85d5nfe3oy.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1126912601 28926 80.91.229.2 (16 Sep 2005 23:16:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 23:16:41 +0000 (UTC) Bcc: ilya Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 17 01:16:40 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EGPQT-0005G1-1Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 01:15:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EGPQS-0003lx-4y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:15:24 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!agate.berkeley.edu!ilya Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: powdermilk.math.berkeley.edu Original-X-Trace: agate.berkeley.edu 1126912357 53543 169.229.140.13 (16 Sep 2005 23:12:37 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 23:12:37 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: trn [how to get a version via %-escapes???] with a custom header X-How-To-Reach-Me: The From: address is valid X-How-To-Disable-Cc: Put in the headers the line: Mail-Copies-To: never Originator: ilya@powdermilk Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:133951 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:29509 Archived-At: [A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to Kevin Rodgers ], who wrote in article : > >>This is distinct from invoking M-. with a negative argument > >>since that pops a stack of markers at which tags were found, not from > >>where they were found. > That last paragraph is part of pop-tag-mark's doc string. To me it > means that if at buffer/point A you move to tag X, then at buffer/point > B you move to tag Y, then at buffer/point C you move to tag Z, then at > buffer/point D: > > M-- M-. will take you back to Z, Y, then X > M-* will take you back to C, B, then A Thanks for a clear explanation. > > c) My experience with my code propagated back to Emacs is very > > negative: a lot of times the resulting code has only subset of > > the original functionality. So I have no incentive to check how > > well pop-tag-mark behaves... > According to etc/NEWS, pop-tag-mark was introduced in Emacs 20.4, but I > can't find any reference to imenu-go in the etc/*NEWS files. Absent any > evidence in the lisp/ChangeLog* files that pop-tag-mark was derived from > your imenu-go, I think you have plenty of incentive to find out whether > it meets your requirements (and thus obviates your complaint about a > "gaping hole in the Emacs UI"). Let me repeat it more clear than I did it the last time: I see no incentive for me to check this new feature for sanity: a) I already have code which does what users want, b) IMO, the probability that the Emacs code does WUW is not overwhelming; c) The code in "a" has many more features than what etags will ever have (per old discussions of me with RMS about merging imenu-go into etags). Hope this helps, Ilya