Re: Poll: Change xref-show-definitions-function's default?

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 04.01.2021 16:21, Philip K. wrote:

> The idea would be that the interaction would look something like this:
>
> 1. The user invokes xref-find-definitions.
> 2. Instead of presenting the solutions, it jumps to the first one, and
>     if there are more, this is indicated in the minibuffer.
> 3. Other matches can be displayed using next-error/previous-error
> 4. At this point, the buffer could be opened, or one could stick to the
>     minibuffer and generate a message like "showing definition N out of
>     M".

It's a good plan, but the devil is in the details.

> I haven't looked into next-error/previous-error, so it might be that
> this isn't feasible, without rewriting a lot of code.

next-error/previous-error might be a bit unreliable when there are other 
next-error-capable buffers around. And especially when the user has 
customized next-error-find-buffer-function. Anyway, you can try and see.

Also re. 4, if the buffer is not needed, you could probably use the 
fileloop package. It might need to be updated to behave "lazily", however.

> It goes without saying that this should not be the default option.

If you want to work on such patch for the optional behavior, I'd be 
happy to review it.