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bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Dec 2020 22:39:17 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> +(defun xref-pop-marker-stack (&optional kill)
>> + "Pop back to where \\[xref-find-definitions] was last invoked.
>> +With prefix argument KILL non-nil, kill the previous buffer instead of
>> +burying it."
>
> What is "the previous buffer" in this context? The doc string leaves
> that unexplained, and thus may confuse the reader.
Maybe this is clearer: "kill the buffer that was current before popping back."
> (I don't object to such a feature, but I really don't understand the
> urge to kill Emacs buffers just because they were needed temporarily.
> Why is that important?)
The problem is that such temporary file buffers are saved
to the desktop file and dangling in the buffer list forever.
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, Juri Linkov, 2020/12/11
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/12/11
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/11
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref,
Juri Linkov <=
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/13
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, Juri Linkov, 2020/12/13
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, João Távora, 2020/12/13
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/14
- bug#44611: Prefix arg for xref-goto-xref, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/12/14