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In decades past when I used find-tag, I think there was a way to advance to the next tag definition if the first one found is not the one you were looking for. Is there a way to do this now that find-tag has been made obsolete by xref-find-definitions?

In my particular case I'd like to jump to a Java class definition of type XYZ, but am instead taken to a Java class that has an XYZ member declaration.

GNU Emacs 25.2.1

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  • M-x next-error, or
  • M-g n (same command), or
  • Switch to Xref's window and press n (maybe several times). When you see the buffer you're looking for displayed, press RET.
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  • For that command I get "next-error-find-buffer: No buffers contain error message locations" Also for some reason I don't get an xref buffer for XYZ but I do for other tags, which seems weird.
    – wytten
    Commented Nov 5, 2021 at 14:06
  • Try installing the latest version of xref from ELPA through M-x list-packages. That will bring next-error integration, among other things. But regarding XYZ, it seems there is only one definition that etags recognizes for it. You can M-x report-emacs-bug about that, but first try installing a newer version of Emacs, it might already be fixed.
    – Dmitry
    Commented Nov 5, 2021 at 22:17
  • The latest Emacs release at the moment is 27.2.
    – Dmitry
    Commented Nov 5, 2021 at 22:18

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