Ilya Zakharevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> [A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
> David Kastrup 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>], who wrote in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> > This is a gaping hole in the Emacs UI.  I wrote a package,
>> > imenu-go.el, which behaves "as expected".
>> 
>> Hardly.

This means the "gaping hole".

>> M-* runs the command pop-tag-mark
>>    which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `etags'.
>> It is bound to M-*.
>> (pop-tag-mark)

This is why it isn't a "gaping hole": the desired function is
available and bound to a key.

[...]

> a) Can't parse your last paragraph;

It was just the online help.

> b) I vaguely remember indeed somebody wanting to propagate the code
>    from imenu-go back into etags; it may be that pop-tag-mark has the
>    functionality of imenu-go (at least when imenu-go works with tags;
>    it can get info where-to-jump from other sources too).
>
> c) My experience with my code propagated back to Emacs is very
>    negative: a lot of times the resulting code has only subset of
>    the original functionality.  So I have no incentive to check how
>    well pop-tag-mark behaves...

So you want to claim a deficiency in Emacs because you don't want to
try out the function and keybinding which it provides for that
purpose?

Wow.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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