Re: Helpful in Emacs?

[Arthur Miller]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
>> Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 22:23:08 +0200
>> Cc: me@wilfred.me.uk, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>,
>>  Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>> 
>> "xref-find-references: This command is included in Emacs 25.1, but it's 
>> based on
>> a text search. It is confused by comments and strings, and cannot distinguish
>> between functions and variables."
>
> This is inaccurate and misleading.  It might be true for the default
> back-end (which AFAIR is Grep), but certainly not for all of them.
> What exactly is a "reference" is determined by the back-end search
> tool, and some of them understand quite a lot of the programming
> language of the source files.
>
> So please correct that blog to avoid misleading people.

That is not my blog, that is quoated from the elisp-refs package:

https://github.com/Wilfred/elisp-refs

I made it clear it was a quote the first time I quoted, but it seems that has
lost in further quoting of my original message.

The original author is CC:ed, so hopefully he sees this.