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 22:18:54 -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 1520907465 12546 195.159.176.226 (13 Mar 2018 02:17:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 02:17:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 13 03:17:41 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 1evZVT-000385-E1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2018 03:17:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36652 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1evZXV-0005p5-Vo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 22:19:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48447) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1evZWo-0005ok-2n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 22:19:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1evZWk-0006zx-Vb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 22:19:02 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:44557) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1evZWk-0006yQ-Pm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 22:18:58 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id w2D2IsRx001178; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 22:18:55 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 32D1566639; Mon, 12 Mar 2018 22:18:54 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Tue, 13 Mar 2018 01:45:48 +0200") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered EDT_SA_DN_PASS=0, RV6240=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <6240> : inlines <6478> : streams <1781229> : uri <2607216> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 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:223676 Archived-At: >> 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 > Is that going to be a temporary measure? I was thinking about it as something temporary, yes. > If so, when do we phase it out? Good question. Given that the original change was introduced in Emacs-25.1, it doesn't make sense to keep such a hack very long, so if it's too late to put it in Emacs-26.1 (which seems likely), then it's probably too late full stop. Stefan