Re: xref in GNU ELPA broken on Emacs 26

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 19.10.2021 16:27, Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs 
text editor wrote:
> I suspect that you can get the same without `eval` with something like:
>
>      (defmacro xref--defstruct (name &rest fields)
>        (declare (indent 1))
>        `(cl-defstruct ,(if (>= 27 emacs-major-version) name
>                          (remq (assq :noinline name) name))
>           ,@fields))
>
>      (xref--defstruct (xref-item
>                        (:noinline t)
>                        (:constructor xref-make (summary location)))
>        "An xref item describes a reference to a location somewhere."
>        summary location)
>
>      (xref--defstruct (xref-match-item
>                        (:noinline t)
>                        (:include xref-item)
>                        (:constructor xref-make-match (summary location length)))
>         "A match xref item describes a search result."
>         length))))

Nice! Thanks, Stefan.

Yuri,

I'm going to push this change now (with a couple of tweaks), to get the 
fix out sooner. But let me know if the soon-to-be-released version 1.3.1 
still has problems.