From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:53:12 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Erase the buffer only after fetching the new contents
X-Git-Tag: emacs-27.1.91~6
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0399cc2ab5;p=emacs.git

Erase the buffer only after fetching the new contents

* lisp/progmodes/xref.el (xref-revert-buffer):
Erase the buffer only after fetching the new contents (bug#46042).

(cherry picked from commit 5821dee0949b2913c07970d6e4b8bb8e8a35f036)
---

diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/xref.el b/lisp/progmodes/xref.el
index e55d2958617..7f5e76c7409 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/xref.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/xref.el
@@ -876,10 +876,10 @@ Return an alist of the form ((FILENAME . (XREF ...)) ...)."
   (let ((inhibit-read-only t)
         (buffer-undo-list t))
     (save-excursion
-      (erase-buffer)
       (condition-case err
-          (xref--insert-xrefs
-           (xref--analyze (funcall xref--fetcher)))
+          (let ((alist (xref--analyze (funcall xref--fetcher))))
+            (erase-buffer)
+            (xref--insert-xrefs alist))
         (user-error
          (insert
           (propertize