Re: Adding support for xref jumping to headers/interfaces

[Helmut Eller]

On Fri, Feb 24 2023, Spencer Baugh wrote:

> Hi,
>
> xref provides support for jump-to-definition, but no support for
> jump-to-interface.  The latter would jump to the header or interface
> file for an identifier.  This functionality exists in some packages
> already because it is particularly important in some languages, and I'm
> looking for suggestions on how to expose it through xref.

I think that it's a bad idea to add language specific commands to xref.
The next thing is that we have commands for jump-to-variable and
jump-to-constant and jump-to-macro ...

It would be better to leave those commands in the language specific mode
with the C-c prefix.

Helmut