Xref interface for developers or advanced users

Function denote-retrieve-groups-xref-query

Access location of xrefs for ‘QUERY’ and group them per file. Limit the search to text files.

Function denote-retrieve-files-xref-query

Return sorted, deduplicated file names with matches for ‘QUERY’ in their contents. Limit the search to text files.

Function denote-retrieve-xref-alist

Return xref alist of files with location of matches for ‘QUERY’. With optional ‘FILES-MATCHING-REGEXP’, limit the list of files accordingly (per denote-directory-files). At all times limit the search to text files.