Re: backtrace-mode

[Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin@fastmail.fm>]

On 19/06/2018 15:58 -0700, Gemini Lasswell wrote:

> - Now that xref-find-definitions works in backtrace buffers, I think
>   it would be better to stop making buttons for the functions in a
>   backtrace, and to document M-. as the best way to jump to function
>   definitions from backtraces.  What do you think of this change to
>   existing behavior, with or without a new customization variable to
>   preserve the old behavior?

I'd rather have buttons as well.

> - Tab and backtab are used by button navigation.  Seems to me the next
>   best choice for bindings for pretty printing and collapsing back to
>   one line are '+' and '-' except '-' is bound to negative-argument
>   in special-mode.  So I'm currently using '+' and '=', but I don't
>   like the '='.  Would it be ok to rebind '-' in backtrace buffers?

Maybe something with `-e' for expand and `-c' for collapse, like
`C-c'/`C-e' in outline-mode?

Filipp