Re: [External] : Re: master 2ed2999: Improve documentation of new Xref options

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 07.09.2021 20:28, Drew Adams wrote:
> > > If possible, `dired-do-*' commands should
> > > behave similarly.  There's value in them
> > > having a consistent interface.
> > >
> > > So much so that I'd say that if some command
> > > has to break this consistency then its name
> > > shouldn't use the prefix `dired-do-'.  Just
> > > one opinion, of course.
> >
> > find-tag and find-file also have a matching first word in the name.
>
> Cute, but not very relevant.
>
> The `dired-do-*' commands are a particular subset
> of Dired commands.  They all have the same UI.

dired-do-search
dired-do-copy
dired-do-touch
dired-do-print
dired-do-kill-lines

Same UI, right.

> That's not true of Dired commands generally (of
> which there are hundreds).
>
> As Eli suggested (but in my words), this little
> thing is about the Dired UI, not Xref.
>
> (But nothing prevents you from having an alias
> whose name is more Xref-relevant.)

I've explained the distinction, in different terms, at least 4 times 
already. Please stop wasting my time.