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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 23:31:01 +0300
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> 
> 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.

The "global" part is important, though: it's supposed to hint on why
find-definition results cannot be used.  The opposite of "global" here
is "partial", not "local".  If you can suggest a better word for
"global" here, please do.

> 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.

Yep.