Re: etags to xref changed navigation

[Philip Kaludercic]

Phillip Susi <phill@thesusis.net> writes:

> Etags used to work by hitting ( I think it was ) M-. to find the first
> reference, then M-, to cycle through the remaining references.  It seems
> that when it was replaced with xref, the M-, binding was removed, and
> now M-. opens an xref buffer ( splitting the window ) listing all of the
> references, and you have to navigate that buffer in one window while
> viewing each location in another.

Not necessarily, you can use M-g M-n and M-g M-p from the buffer you
invoked xref in to navigate definitions as well.

> I find this process slow and cumbersome compared to the old way of just
> jumping from reference to reference.  Is there a way to get back to the
> old behavior?
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        Philip Kaludercic on peregrine