Re: Allow xref to use other than current major-mode

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:

> I've started writing such a thing, but it gets defeated by the fact that
> xref--read-identifier uses the buffer-local value of
> xref-identifier-completion-table-function, which is set by elisp-mode
> (or c-mode, etc, or by default to etags). There's no way to change that.
>
> I guess a global xref backend could somehow reset that variable, in all
> elisp buffers? Maybe a function on elisp-mode-hook.

There is after-change-major-mode-hook, but we would still have
xref-backends fighting for control.

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