bug#74361: [PATCH] New option xref-navigation-display-window-action

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 03:42:34 +0200
> Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, 74361@debbugs.gnu.org, juri@linkov.net
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
> 
> On 16/11/2024 10:43, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> That's the term I would use both both, but maybe there could be better
> >> wording. If xref-find-definition is not a navigation command, is it a
> >> "search command"?
> > Let me turn the table and ask: which Xref commands will NOT use this
> > action, if we exclude commands like
> > xref-find-definitions-other-window, which specify the window/frame to
> > use?
> 
> xref-query-replace-in-results will not (or its twin 
> xref-find-references-and-replace). I suppose not many people would 
> expect them to.

This seems to indicate that my proposal is actually okay, since the
above two commands do not "show results of Xref commands"?

> Also, there is a nuance: when the Xref buffer itself is shown (i.e. when 
> there are multiple locations matching a xref-find-definitions search), 
> we're not going to pass (category . xref) to display-buffer either - it 
> is reserved for displaying the buffers of destination locations.

And this is a separate issue, not related to the doc string?