Re: Bad moves with xref-find-definitions

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 04/25/2015 09:49 PM, Vitalie Spinu wrote:
> As to my 2nd original point. I think the exclusive approach of tags *or*
> dynamic completion is not the correct one. There should be a way to
> merge tag candidates with dynamic candidates.

xref-find-function defined by the major mode could as well do that.

> Having C/C++ api interface
> to higher order languages is a commonality rather than an exception
> nowadays.

I'm not sure what the above is referring to.

> So maybe xref-identifier-completion-table-function and
> xref-find-function should be better lists of functions to allow for
> grouped backends?

The prevailing thought on that subject is that modes can (or maybe 
should) employ the nadvice package to modify these values.

See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-11/msg00338.html 
and the following messages.