XRef RST

This package provides a reStructuredText back-end for Emacs Xref.

This means you can look-up links at the cursor as well as finding references to link-targets.

Available via melpa.

Motivation

For large multi-file projects, being able to jump to links can be useful.

Usage

Once enabled, the following Xref functions can be used with RST files.

xref-find-definitions

Look up the symbol at the cursor.

Supports ref, term, doc and file-paths (in an index for example).

xref-find-references

Shows references to a target when the cursor is over one.

Supports ref targets and terms in the glossary.

This can be enabled using xref-rst-mode (a buffer-local minor-mode), for example:

(add-hook 'rst-mode-hook #'xref-rst-mode)

Customization

rst-find-in-project-extensions ('(".rst" ".txt"))

A list of literal file extensions to search.

Details

• The projects root is detected by searching for conf.py (used by Sphinx), otherwise version control is used to find the root.
• Files and directories beginning with a . are ignored.
• The xref-rst-mode minor mode simply handles adding/removing the Xref back-end.