From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Allow xref to use other than current major-mode Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 10:41:25 -0500 Message-ID: <8637z7idei.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: <86fv37it65.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <55DC5612.9050704@yandex.ru> <867fojidv4.fsf@stephe-leake.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440517343 29890 80.91.229.3 (25 Aug 2015 15:42:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 15:42:23 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 25 17:42:08 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUGMR-0001C5-Us for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 17:42:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32834 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUGMR-0008MP-DF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 11:42:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50653) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUGMD-0008Kk-53 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 11:41:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUGM8-0008EF-0j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 11:41:53 -0400 Original-Received: from gproxy2-pub.mail.unifiedlayer.com ([69.89.18.3]:35483) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUGM7-0008DO-Od for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 11:41:47 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 11832 invoked by uid 0); 25 Aug 2015 15:41:40 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO cmgw2) (10.0.90.83) by gproxy2.mail.unifiedlayer.com with SMTP; 25 Aug 2015 15:41:40 -0000 Original-Received: from host114.hostmonster.com ([74.220.207.114]) by cmgw2 with id 93hU1r01F2UdiVW013hXbF; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 09:41:38 -0600 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=C6F6l2/+ c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=CQdxDb2CKd3SRg4I0/XZPQ==:117 a=CQdxDb2CKd3SRg4I0/XZPQ==:17 a=DsvgjBjRAAAA:8 a=f5113yIGAAAA:8 a=9i_RQKNPAAAA:8 a=y7kgw_RnJtkA:10 a=hEr_IkYJT6EA:10 a=x_XPkuGwIRMA:10 a=uRRa74qj2VoA:10 a=bq7FwYJDYngoXScZljEA:9 Original-Received: from [76.218.37.33] (port=62865 helo=TAKVER2) by host114.hostmonster.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUGLq-0000Ew-Nb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 09:41:30 -0600 In-Reply-To: <867fojidv4.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (Stephen Leake's message of "Tue, 25 Aug 2015 10:31:27 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (windows-nt) X-Identified-User: {2442:host114.hostmonster.com:stephele:stephe-leake.org} {sentby:smtp auth 76.218.37.33 authed with stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org} X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 69.89.18.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:189168 Archived-At: Stephen Leake 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. -- -- Stephe