Re: xref-find-matches and stuff

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 05/06/2015 05:40 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Fine with me, thanks.

Here's why you might change your mind: even on forward jumps, we can 
only have a "match" data in certain cases, like using xref-find-references.

Using etags for xref-find-references, we don't have the column where the 
identifier name starts. So if we're jumping to last_height, we only have 
the information where "static int last_height;" starts.

I'm sure we could do a search-forward, but that's venturing into the 
hacks territory, and there's no guarantee, in general, that the 
identifier you've typed into the prompt occurs in the buffer as-is.