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bug#58158: 29.0.50; [overlay] Interval tree iteration considered harmful
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#58158: 29.0.50; [overlay] Interval tree iteration considered harmful |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Oct 2022 11:10:39 +0300 |
> Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2022 21:50:39 +0300
> Cc: gerd.moellmann@gmail.com, 58158@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
>
> > Btw, what am I doing wrong below?
> >
> > emacs -Q
> > C-x C-f src/character.h RET
> > M-x visit-tags-table RET RET
> > M-. char_string RET
> > r whatever RET
> >
> > Unexpected result: "No suitable matches here". Huh? what did I miss?
>
> We can't replace over "find definition" matches: they are more abstract
> and don't contain the necessary information to perform the replacement
> (such as the length of a match, for instance).
>
> And such xrefs might navigate you to the beginning of the line, for
> example, rather than to the beginning of the name.
>
> But that makes sense, doesn't it? If replacing over "find definitions"
> results worked fine, in the end you would get a codebase where all
> declarations of a method 'foo' got renamed, but all callsites of it
> remain unchanged. That couldn't have been your intention, could it?
>
> The error message could use some improvement, I suppose, but I'm not
> sure how to make it better.
I tried to improve the situation, both in the error message, the doc
string, and the manual.
- bug#58158: 29.0.50; [overlay] Interval tree iteration considered harmful, (continued)
- bug#58158: 29.0.50; [overlay] Interval tree iteration considered harmful, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/01
- bug#58158: 29.0.50; [overlay] Interval tree iteration considered harmful, Gerd Möllmann, 2022/10/01
- bug#58158: 29.0.50; [overlay] Interval tree iteration considered harmful, Gerd Möllmann, 2022/10/02
- bug#58158: 29.0.50; [overlay] Interval tree iteration considered harmful, Matt Armstrong, 2022/10/06
- bug#58158: 29.0.50; [overlay] Interval tree iteration considered harmful, Dmitry Gutov, 2022/10/06