From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 b1aaa72: Improve documentation of Xref Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 18:43:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20180311173926.29923.58430@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20180311173928.14DD220B54@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <83o9jts2jj.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520894720 27716 195.159.176.226 (12 Mar 2018 22:45:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 22:45:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 12 23:45:16 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1evWBu-00075y-BL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 23:45:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36018 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1evWDx-0002OJ-4F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 18:47:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40144) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1evWDq-0002Nt-V4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 18:47:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1evWDn-0000TG-PW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 18:47:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=40829 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1evWDn-0000T5-HZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 18:47:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1evWBi-0006qg-FL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 23:45:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:iJ68C16LcbV6atcJdU+NnBIOkBE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:223668 Archived-At: > "M-. (bound to xref-find-definitions) can't find any > definitions. I visit-tags-file, set tags-file-name and tags-table-list > manaully, generated the file with etags and ctags, everything. No luck" > > Basically, there was no reason to expect navigation to those symbols to > work, except that the user had created and visited a tags table containing > them. So I think the surprise really was that M-. didn't use the current > tags table. I guess this is due to the fact that M-. used to rely on etags so the user who hasn't paid attention gets surprised, indeed. Maybe xref could have an ad-hoc hack which does: - if there's no match - and there's a tags table installed. - and there's a match in the tags table. - then kindly suggest to the user to activate xref-etags-mode Stefan