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Re: master 2ed2999: Improve documentation of new Xref options


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: master 2ed2999: Improve documentation of new Xref options
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 18:47:31 +0300

> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 18:24:46 +0300
> 
> On 07.09.2021 16:05, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> Or "commands which display many matches, with high likelihood that the
> >> user will want to visit every match, rather than just pick one". At
> >> least that was the thinking behind xref-show-definitions-function vs
> >> xref-show-xrefs-function.
> > 
> > OK, I hope I fixed this stuff now, please take a look.
> 
> Thank you, sent some comments.
> 
> You didn't seem to adopt the suggested description, but OK.

Which ones?

> > Should we perhaps treat dired-do-find-regexp like we do with
> > dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace, to avoid confusion due to
> > inconsistency?
> 
> dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace is a totally different command, which 
> could use an entirely different UI (as soon as someone wrote one).
> 
> There is no way to have it obey xref-auto-jump-to-first-xref: it simply 
> failed to work without the fix.

I understand.  But wouldn't it confuse users that dired-do-find-regexp
obeys the option, while dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace does not?  I
though perhaps we should make both not obey.



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