Subject: Re: bug#29619: Fwd: [xref.el] Add `xref-find-references` to `xref-prompt-for-identifier`

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 12:38:31 +0200

On 12/11/17 9:18 AM, Fangrui Song wrote:

> The identifier (if chosen from xref prompt) is ignored by Language
> Server Protocol and only the position information is what matters.

The value is not ignored. Only its text properties are used, but that's 
fine.

Looking at xref-backend-identifier-completion-table, it allows 
navigation to all (?) symbols in the "document", so the xref API seems 
to be used as intended.