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From: | Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: | bug#65520: 30.0.50; [FR Xref] Project-wide operations |
Date: | Sun, 27 Aug 2023 03:32:22 +0300 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.13.0 |
On 26/08/2023 08:31, Gerd Möllmann wrote:
No such capability at the moment, but we indeed have an ELPA package xref-union which implements the "merging" feature that has been requested in the past.Thanks also to Visuwesh for pointing me to xref-union.Have you tried it?Not yet. I'm still hoping someone else (tm) builds something, so that I don't have to do anything.
xref-union is a thing that somebody has already built. Either you try it and like it, or you can come back with more targeted feedback.
Which we could then use to improve either it, or the core xref, of course.
Indeed, it's also a question of mental model, which we might have different. When I was saying "different projects" and "register globally", I was thinking of being able to jump to Emacs' sources and hack them from anywhere: from any other project I might be working on at the moment. If we're talking about Emacs development only, a "combined" backend might make more sense (see the other email).No, I didn't mean Emacs development specifically, although that's probably the only things I'd use such a facility for. The whole thing would be like in some IDEs, with their "usual" idea of project. I'm not 100% sure, but I think I've seen vscode being used with different languages (JS, CSS, Java...) and offering such project-wide stuff.
IIRC the LSP protocol includes project type detection, and so Eglot can automatically spin up several language servers already.
Without the addition of a similar registry, which all backends would have to plug into, the best we could do is loop across the open project buffers and see what backends exist there. But that would e.g. miss Elisp if you haven't opened any .el files in the current session yet.
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