Emacs xref stopped working on Macs with dumb-jump
Martin Fowler
MAY 19, 2023
It took a while for me to realize (ie remember) that I was using the excellent dumb-jump package as the backend. dumb-jump uses a range of fast search commands (such as ag and ripgrep) to detect references without using the awkward tags tables that Emacs used to rely on. With that my xref commands worked again.
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