Re: How to define xref-find-definitions for a new mode?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 06:49:43 +0200
> 
> >> > Are you sure it doesn't work already?  E.g., if \label is tagged, then
> >> > "M-." on the tag's name at \ref should go to the label's definition.
> >>
> >> Well, apparently it doesn't without the TAGS file.  And even with it,
> >> I couldn't make it to work.  Also, amsrefs is not suppported.
> >
> > Then my suggestion would be to extend etags to support that.  That way
> > you won't be starting from scratch.
> 
> Well, in that case I'll pass for now.  Etags is written in C, which
> I don't speak very well.  (Learning it better would be great, but
> I don't have enough time for that now.)

You could instead file bug reports with reproducible recipes and with
requests for what should 'etags' the program add to TAGS to support
your features.  Then someone else could implement these changes in
'etags'.  It's known to have happened, including fairly recently.