Thanks very much Keita. In the meantime, if there's any related feedback on the Emacs thread I'll get back to you.
Best, David. On Wed, 29 May 2024, 16:50 Ikumi Keita, <ik...@ikumi.que.jp> wrote: > Hi David, > > >>>>> David Fussner <dfuss...@googlemail.com> writes: > > 1. How false are these false positives? If it's a project with plain > > TeX and LaTeX files, there's always a certain amount of overlap > > anyway, and that includes amsTeX, too. ConTeXt is another problem, so > > it will depend somewhat on the nature of the project. > > > 2. If you create a TAGS file in the project, then typically that will > > cover all the .tex files, too, so the other xref commands may find > > hits across the various TeX varieties, and therefore > > `xref-find-references' won't be an outlier in that respect. > > > 3. I also feel -- quite strongly as it happens -- that false negatives > > are worse than false positives. If you've a .tex file open and do M-? > > in it then you won't even see the hit point is on, but only hits from > > whatever other file extensions happen to belong to the initial file's > > major mode. Currently, in the case of plain TeX or ams TeX, that means > > no hits, which is sort of weird and very frustrating when you're > > looking at one on your screen. In a LaTeX .tex file you'll also not > > get the hit you're actually looking at on your screen, but this might > > be disguised by hits from other file extensions. I think this is much > > more misleading than any false positives, but I concede that others > > may not feel as strongly about this as I do. > > Thank you for your reply. I understand your concern about false > negatives and think that I'll apply your patch to AUCTeX repository if > there are no objections. There would be only small amount of false > positives under practical situations and we can add a new customize > option mentioned in my previous message if there are many complaints > about them anyway. > > Let's wait for 3-4 days to see whether there are objections or not. > > Regards, > Ikumi Keita > #StandWithUkraine #StopWarInUkraine > #Gaza #StopMassiveKilling #CeasefireNOW >
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