From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Allow xref to use other than current major-mode
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:48:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55DC5612.9050704@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86fv37it65.fsf@stephe-leake.org>
On 08/25/2015 01:00 PM, Stephen Leake wrote:
> To handle this, I propose changing both
> xref-identifier-completion-table-function and xref-find-function to be
> mode-local, instead of buffer-local.
That seems unnecessarily limiting. First, mode-local facility is a part
of CEDET, so it would need to be always loaded.
Second, how would a minor mode set an xref backend? It might not be tied
to a particular major mode.
> There are similar use cases; from a LaTeX document buffer, looking at the
> description of an Ada function, find the Ada code that defines that
> function. Or from a text mode notes file, look for a definition in any
> one of several languages.
All similar cases can be solved by a project-aware xref backend that
knows about all languages used, and allows navigating to identifiers in
all of them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-25 11:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-25 10:00 Allow xref to use other than current major-mode Stephen Leake
2015-08-25 11:48 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2015-08-25 12:19 ` João Távora
2015-08-25 12:25 ` David Engster
2015-08-25 14:47 ` Stephen Leake
2015-08-25 15:07 ` David Engster
2015-08-25 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-25 17:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-25 21:17 ` Stephen Leake
2015-08-25 15:31 ` Stephen Leake
2015-08-25 15:41 ` Stephen Leake
2015-08-25 17:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-25 21:13 ` Stephen Leake
2015-08-25 22:11 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-25 22:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-25 22:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
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