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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:312561 Archived-At: I'm working from a local copy of a specific org-mode checkout and want xref to navigate within the checkout directory, not within the currently loaded Org mode (which is not /tmp/org-mode). It seems like xref-etags-mode is what I need. However, it only appears to apply locally. I cannot get it to function globally; I must call it on every buffer. For example, I've built and visited TAGS for /tmp/org-mode. cd /tmp git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs/org-mode.git cd org-mode git -c advice.detachedHead=false checkout 9183e3c723b812360d1042196416d521db590e9f ctags -eR . (find-file "/tmp/org-mode/lisp/ob-shell.el") (visit-tags-table "/tmp/org-mode/TAGS") I call M-x xref-etags-mode in the buffer visiting ob-shell.el. I search for "babel-eval" and call xref-find-definitions. This takes me to /tmp/org-mode/lisp/ob-eval.el as expected. However, if I check C-h v xref-etags-mode, I see that it's nil in the ob-eval.el buffer. Calling xref-find-definitions on "org-assert-version", it fails to take me anywhere. (When I run it with my full init, it takes me to the Emacs system directory lisp/org/org-macs.el.gz.) Calling M-x xref-etags-mode within the buffer visiting ob-eval.el allows me to call xref-find-definitions and takes me to the expected file, /tmp/org-mode/lisp/org-macs.el. I can set a hook that calls xref-etags-mode after every jump: (add-hook 'xref-after-jump-hook (lambda () (xref-etags-mode 1))) However, I find all this behavior unexpected. I would expect xref-etags-mode to apply globally. It's not clear to me why it's only buffer local. If there's some reason I'm missing, then I would expect to see a global-xref-etags-mode function. This don't seem to exist. Is this expected behavior? If not, should I put in a PR that adds :global t to the define-minor-mode xref-etags-mode?