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From: | Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: | bug#53749: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Xref backend for TeX buffers |
Date: | Mon, 21 Feb 2022 04:11:33 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.5.0 |
Hi!Let us first discuss whether we could make do without an additional Xref backend. Just to make sure.
On 03.02.2022 17:09, David Fussner via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors wrote:
Similarly, any xref command on 'my:citekey' will only search by default for the half of the symbol under point, stopping at the colon.
etags's implementation of 'xref-backend-identifier-at-point' calls 'find-tag--default', which consults 'find-tag-default-function' and
(get major-mode 'find-tag-default-function).So if your main goal was to alter which string gets searched for (based on text around point), you can define a function which returns the necessary string (as you did in the patch) and then either set 'find-tag-default-function' to that function, or put it on the 'find-tag-default-function' property for the respective major mode functions.
There are many other behaviors that are suboptimal, as well, so in the end I wrote a new xref backend for TeX buffers (cloning large portions of the default etags backend), and wondered whether it might be welcome in GNU Emacs.
Could you point out the other changes which were required?
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