Re: xref-query-replace-in-results error message after xref-find-definitions, was: Re: bug#58158: 29.0.50; [overlay] Interval tree iteration considered harmful

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 11.10.2022 19:50, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> So is this:
>
>    Cannot perform global replacement in find-definition results
>
> the best that can be done?  It sounds like no alternative is
> significantly better.

Perhaps.

Let's drop the "global" adjective, though: whether the command works 
"globally", "locally", or etc, depends on how the user made the search.

Then we can make this the error message and wait and see until the next 
time anybody complains about the new phrasing. Probably after Emacs 29.