Re: xref overrides user xref-backend-functions

[Dmitry Gutov]

Hi Anders,

On 12/02/2015 08:08 AM, Anders Lindgren wrote:
        
> Have you considered using the "###autoload" construct? This way, the
> default value is available to all users when Emacs start and they don't
> have to remember to require xref before changing the variable. At the
> same time, if a user sets the variable, xref will not modify it when loaded.

That should fit the bill too, indeed.

I've just read the advice against autoloading variables too many times 
to consider it. But searching through the codebase now, we do have quite 
a few such variables.