From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19468: 25.0.50; UI inconveniences with M-. Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:34:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83zja6b3tc.fsf@gnu.org> <54A24079.4020902@yandex.ru> <54A2FF47.6010207@yandex.ru> <54A86135.7080004@yandex.ru> <54A90002.7080009@gmx.at> <54A9C3FB.7000602@yandex.ru> <54AA3881.3080304@gmx.at> <54ABBB47.7010603@yandex.ru> <837fszx7iy.fsf@gnu.org> <83r3r5wqwv.fsf@gnu.org> <553EBBBF.6070509@yandex.ru> <553ED323.6080603@yandex.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1430184982 27542 80.91.229.3 (28 Apr 2015 01:36:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 01:36:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 19468@debbugs.gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 28 03:36:12 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YmuRW-0002xy-EA for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 03:36:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58387 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YmuRV-0006ri-Do for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:36:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41098) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YmuRR-0006rb-L8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:36:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YmuRO-0000YN-FT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:36:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:52052) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YmuRO-0000YI-Cc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:36:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YmuRN-0006Nr-Ub for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:36:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 01:36:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 19468 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 19468-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B19468.143018490824435 (code B ref 19468); Tue, 28 Apr 2015 01:36:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 19468) by debbugs.gnu.org; 28 Apr 2015 01:35:08 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41828 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YmuQV-0006M0-AB for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:35:07 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:19791) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YmuQS-0006LN-RJ for 19468@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:35:05 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AnEFAGvvdVRMCqjW/2dsb2JhbAA3gVOfQYIugQiBdQEBBAFWIwULCw4mEhQYDSSIE6IRjAIEGEYJAwODPgODcASjY4RY X-IPAS-Result: AnEFAGvvdVRMCqjW/2dsb2JhbAA3gVOfQYIugQiBdQEBBAFWIwULCw4mEhQYDSSIE6IRjAIEGEYJAwODPgODcASjY4RY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.11,557,1422939600"; d="scan'208";a="117611225" Original-Received: from 76-10-168-214.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.168.214]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 27 Apr 2015 21:34:59 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 530C6187C; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 21:34:57 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <553ED323.6080603@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Tue, 28 Apr 2015 03:24:03 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:102147 Archived-At: >> That makes a lot of sense when the candidates are equally likely to be >> The One that the user's looking for. In the case of etags I think the >> problem comes from the substring matching it uses. > etags puts some effort into returning the candidates in the most plausible > way. Indeed. > Should we ignore that? IIUC, in the current xref/etags code, it seems we do ignore that, apparently because of the reordering. > Further, xref-find-apropos will return a lot of candidates, and that will be > what the user wants. For xref-find-apropos that's fine. But not for M-. > How reliable is tag-exact-match-p? Don't know. > We could, for instance, filter out all > non-exact matches when we're just looking for definitions. I think that would make sense, yes. Stefan