[slime-devel] [RfC] SPC vs. RET in Xref Buffers

[Andrew Gasparovic]

The way the XREF buffer works wrt. emacs windows has always seemed a  
little strange to me. When you M-. and go straight to a function  
definition (for example), the source file opens in the same window you  
were in when you hit M-. The XREF buffer opens in another one (the  
opposite one if you work with two windows side by side, as I do).

That's not bad by itself, but pressing SPACE on one of the definitions  
has the nasty side-effect of ruining my window layout. It replaces  
both windows with one to display the source file. So if I just want to  
go to a particular definition's source file, I either have to accept  
that and reset my windows by hand, or press ENTER, kill the XREF  
buffer, and switch to the other window with the source buffer.

Am I missing something? It seems like other people would be  
experiencing this more often, but I've never heard anyone  
complaining....

-Andrew

On Aug 8, 2008, at 4:35 PM, Tobias C. Rittweiler wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> In XREF buffers, pressing RET will open the definition at point in the
> buffer where you originally issued the xref command, but let the XREF
> buffer open and let point still be in there.
>
> Pressing, SPACE will bring one to the definition at point, but will  
> also
> close the XREF buffer.
>
> I never get that right, so I'd like to swap the key bindings, as this
> makes more sense to me (and is what I want more often in my  
> experience.)
>
> Anyone's muscle memories against that?
>
>  -T.
>
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