Re: Bad moves with xref-find-definitions

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 04/25/2015 11:43 PM, Vitalie Spinu wrote:

> It probably should be generic such that other "finding" or "jumping"
> functionality can reuse it (prompt-before-jump, auto-jump).

Maybe the rule could be whether the command is almost always related to 
the current buffer's contents.

`describe-function' and friends I would actually consider to be 
counter-examples, because they only work with Elisp.

And similarly how certain other people are attached to etags, I'd always 
want to have access to Elisp documentation and sources, even when 
editing unrelated code in another language.

Hence I think we need a separate, generalizable command and binding that 
would work with different modes and depend on the current language or 
project. That one could work like SLIME's `C-c C-d C-d'.

> The problem is of course that "find-file" is also a "finding" behavior,
> for which you unlikely to want this behavior. So it's difficult to draw
> a line on what are these commands.

Let's stop at xref, for now.

> More specific name like xref-auto-jump seems quite suggestive to me.

How about `xref-prompt-for-identifier', to mirror CIDER's option name?