From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bad moves with xref-find-definitions Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 10:24:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87h9s6c27z.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429971896 18899 80.91.229.3 (25 Apr 2015 14:24:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 14:24:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Vitalie Spinu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 25 16:24:47 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1Ym10g-0004ix-AB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2015 16:24:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48507 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ym10f-00029X-D7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2015 10:24:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49303) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ym10U-00029Q-VK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2015 10:24:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ym10R-0004rk-NV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2015 10:24:34 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:60109) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ym10R-0004re-IX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2015 10:24:31 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id t3PEOTY1011977; Sat, 25 Apr 2015 10:24:29 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 11EBD250C; Sat, 25 Apr 2015 10:24:29 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87h9s6c27z.fsf@gmail.com> (Vitalie Spinu's message of "Thu, 23 Apr 2015 17:07:44 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5287=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9393 : core <5287> : inlines <2795> : streams <1428388> : uri <1915536> 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: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:185869 Archived-At: > 1) `find-tag` (previously bound to M-.) was prompting for a symbol > before jumping to the definition. You can still get the prompt, with C-u. > 3) C-u xref-find-definitions places symbol at point as the initial > input which forces you to delete it. It's rather annoying. Indeed, that looks like a bug. The convention in Emacs is to use empty initial inputs (and make the default available as M-n instead). Stefan