From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 16:05:44 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: ; Re-arrange xref-related entries in NEWS.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-25.0.90~289
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0a7ad071efdd6fe9cc2f5f18bb5648f0062ec60b;p=emacs.git

; Re-arrange xref-related entries in NEWS.
---

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index fdfd4f0d016..c97edf27bd9 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -933,20 +933,30 @@ New options `tildify-space-string', `tildify-pattern', and
 `tildify-ignored-environments-alist' variables (as well as a few
 helper functions) obsolete.
 
-** xref
-The new package provides generic framework and new commands to find
-and move to definitions, as well as pop back to the original location.
-
-*** New key bindings
-`xref-find-definitions' replaces `find-tag' and provides an interface
-to pick one destination among several.  Hence, `tags-loop-continue' is
-unbound.  `xref-pop-marker-stack' replaces `pop-tag-mark', but uses an
-easier binding, which is now unoccupied (`M-,').
+** New package Xref replaces Etags's front-end and UI
+
+The new package Xref provides a generic framework and new commands to
+find and move to definitions of functions, macros, data structures
+etc., as well as go back to the location where you were before moving
+to a definition.  It supersedes and obsoletes many Etags commands,
+while still using the etags.el code that reads the TAGS tables as one
+of its back-ends.
+
+The command `xref-find-definitions' replaces `find-tag' and provides
+an interface to pick one definition among several.
+`tags-loop-continue' is now unbound.  `xref-pop-marker-stack' replaces
+`pop-tag-mark', but has a keybinding (`M-,'), unlike `pop-tag-mark'.
+
 `xref-find-definitions-other-window' replaces `find-tag-other-window'.
 `xref-find-definitions-other-frame' replaces `find-tag-other-frame'.
 `xref-find-apropos' replaces `find-tag-regexp'.
 
+As a result of this, the following commands are now obsolete:
+`find-tag-other-window', `find-tag-other-frame', `find-tag-regexp',
+`tags-apropos', and `tags-loop-continue'.
+
 *** New variables
+
 `find-tag-marker-ring-length' is now an obsolete alias for
 `xref-marker-ring-length'.  `find-tag-marker-ring' is now an obsolete
 alias for a private variable.  `xref-push-marker-stack' and
@@ -957,11 +967,6 @@ alias for a private variable.  `xref-push-marker-stack' and
 information about mode local overrides (defined by cedet/mode-local.el
 `define-overloadable-function' `define-mode-local-overrides').
 
-** etags
-As a result of the above, these commands are now obsolete:
-`find-tag-other-window', `find-tag-other-frame', `find-tag-regexp',
-`tags-apropos' and `tags-loop-continue'.
-
 ** EUDC
 EUDC's LDAP backend has been improved.