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Re: xref-query-replace-in-results error message after xref-find-definiti


From: John Yates
Subject: 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
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 06:06:22 -0400

On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 1:18 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

Clearly the 'global' / 'local' dichotomy is too deeply ingrained in emacs
concepts to allow easy reuse of those terms with even slightly different
meanings.  Perhaps 'full', 'complete', 'total', 'universal', or some such.



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