catern
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1 year ago I'm very interested in this too. Specifically, I have a somewhat interesting use case: I have another xref backend which supports jump-to-definition efficiently, but doesn't support jump-to-references, so it would be nice to use dump-jump to provide that latter functionality.
That being said, after you mentioned this I looked at the default xref-backend-references implementation, and it actually looks like it might be plausible to improve the default in upstream Emacs. Like, instead of using find | grep, use something based on ag/rg when those commands are avilable, automatically, upstream. I say this because the semantic backend which xref is using seems to already have decent support for fallbacks like that.
ArneBab
Hello, thanks for this very useful library. I was wondering if you had considered implementing the "find references to symbol" part of xref.
Right now,
M-.works great for jumping to a symbol. But once I'm there, if I typeM-?, xref falls back to a really slowfind … | grepthing. I was wondering if it would be feasible to reuse the same ag/rg searching instead.I don't know much about the internals of either xref or dumb-jump, but I'm happy to poke at this if it seems like something you would consider merging.