From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 f8208b6: Document the user-level features of the Xref package
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 23:28:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2bn8gbtgt.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8337tsc133.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 20 Jan 2016 06:43:44 +0200")
>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> No, dired-do-find-regexp cannot replace it, because it looks through all the
> files in the directory, whereas tags-search looks in the files recorded in
> the tags tables. We should have an xref-based replacement for tags-search
> and tags-query-replace, which would similarly search through the "relevant"
> files. These are currently the only 2 etags-based commands in that section
> that directly invoke etags.el. Once we solve that problem (and I think we
> should do this before v25.1 is out), there will be no reason for splitting
> the description more than it already is (the tags tables and how to build
> them are already described in a separate subsection).
Thanks, Eli, you wrote exactly what I had wanted to after reading that
comment. Yes, and yes.
> (Btw, I think replacing tags-search and tags-query-replace with commands
> that start with "project-" is not a good idea, for the same reason that
> having "tags-*" commands there is. They should be "xref-*" commands.)
And yes.
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2016-01-10 3:02 ` [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 f8208b6: Document the user-level features of the Xref package Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-10 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-10 18:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-10 18:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-10 19:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-10 20:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-10 21:11 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-11 3:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-11 16:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-11 17:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-11 19:09 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-11 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-11 19:41 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-11 20:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-11 20:21 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-18 17:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-18 22:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-19 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-19 21:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-20 4:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-20 7:28 ` John Wiegley [this message]
2016-01-20 20:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-20 21:03 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-20 21:09 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-21 19:01 ` Stephen Leake
2016-01-21 20:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-21 3:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-21 3:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-21 17:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-21 18:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-21 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-21 19:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-21 20:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-21 20:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-21 20:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-21 21:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-24 2:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-24 15:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-25 20:38 ` Ken Brown
2016-01-25 20:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-25 21:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-26 2:44 ` Ken Brown
2016-01-26 6:22 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-21 19:19 ` Stephen Leake
2016-01-21 19:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-22 7:40 ` Stephen Leake
2016-01-22 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-22 10:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-22 13:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-22 10:07 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-21 20:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-22 18:16 ` John Yates
2016-01-19 5:36 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-19 5:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
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