On Sun, Mar 5, 2023, 20:10 João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 5, 2023, 10:22 Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com> wrote:.
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>>
>> I think that it's a bad idea to add language specific commands to xref.
>> The next thing is that we have commands for jump-to-variable and
>> jump-to-constant and jump-to-macro ...
>>
>> It would be better to leave those commands in the language specific mode
>> with the C-c prefix.
>>
>
> I agree, but the xref backend responsible for answering the request can
> still be Eglot's.
>

To clarify, i think the thin commands and the keybinds should be in the
major modes, but these commands should be thin and use xref as a library.
And the backend should be Eglot's,  if it happens to be managing the buffer
via LSP, else out can be whatever the major modes sets up.

João

Josh

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