Re: Bad moves with xref-find-definitions

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 04/27/2015 10:36 PM, Bozhidar Batsov wrote:

> This was not my doing. I suggested C-x 4, but there was strong
> opposition for it.

https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider/issues/1014? Maybe people just 
missed the suggestion. And note how in 
https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider/pull/1044 someone wonders why it 
works in a different way.

Anyway, at this point you can add support for xref, and gradually 
deprecate the alternative bindings.

> Sure, that's clearly a possibility. I just didn't want to go overboard
> with this. Such a config has pretty much the same complexity as adding a
> second set of commands that simply do the different thing.

I think it's a bit easier than asking a user to change a set of key 
bindings. Should take less code to implement, too.

Having separate bindings for "always prompt" might be a good idea 
anyway, though. Like F12 vs Ctrl-P in Sublime or Ctrl-Click vs Ctrl-N, 
etc, in IDEA.

IDEA also uses a different interface for multiple choices in the 
Ctrl-Click case.

> OK, but this contradicts with the behavior of Emacs's own
> `find-function`, `find-variable`, etc.

It does, but find-func is kind of auxiliary package. None of these 
commands have default bindings.

> Life has told me that's it's pretty hard to please everyone. :-)

We probably have different standards for user satisfaction. "Everyone is 
equally annoyed" is often quite enough for me. :)