Re: xref in a narrowed buffer?

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 04.03.2020 17:46, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > Should 'xref-goto-ref' widen the buffer before attempting to jump to
> > > the definition? Or should 'xref-find-definitions' not show definitions
> > > that are outside the narrowed area?
> >
> > The latter is pretty hard to do, so the former, I guess.
>
> It could also signal a clean error telling the user the destination is
> outside of the narrowed region, so the user can decide whether to widen
> or not (and is aware of the fact that the source of the problem is the
> narrowing).

True. It's also an option.

I don't use narrowing, and don't understand its intended behavior, so 
someone else should make the choice on what is the best approach here.