Use xref instead of etags #3073
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xref-push-marker-stack is the up-to-date way of pushing point to marker
stack. This should be used instead of find-tag-marker ring that has been
marked as obsolete in emacs 25.1 (https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/3af9e84ff59811734dcbb5d55e04e1fdb7051e77/lisp/progmodes/etags.el#L184)
Implementation details:
find-tag-marker-ring
was a variable alias forxref--marker-ring
xref-push-marker-stack
is implemented as:This pull request replaces etags with xref and uses the recommended method, and fixes #3071