Re: Bad moves with xref-find-definitions

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 04/26/2015 05:50 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> This is backwards, sorry.  M-. should be intelligent enough not to
> signal errors in this situation, and neither should it require users
> to navigate needlessly.  No other feature that is sensitive to "the
> thing at point" behaves like that, AFAIR.

Yes, this does not make sense to me either.

> If this issue is controversial among users, let's have a user option
> to control the default behavior -- either always prompt and use the
> symbol at point, if any, for the default value, or prompt only when
> there's no usable symbol at point.

The option has been added.