Re: Generalizing find-definition

[Helmut Eller]

On Tue, Dec 16 2014, Dmitry Gutov wrote:

> On 12/15/2014 11:57 PM, Helmut Eller wrote:
>
>> You could also further restrict the identifier type: allow only strings.
>
> Already did. :) Have you looked at the patch?

Apparently I missed that.  The last patch I looked at had a number of
(eq id t) tests.

>> Tell users that they can put text properties on the string if they need
>> more structured data.
>
> Right, that will also be a nice escape hatch. Do you think it obviates
> my proposal of returning precise or imprecise identifiers, depending
> on the argument?

There's still the problem of how to put text properties on the result of
completing-read.

Helmut