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<p>I'm developing a quickswitch plugin (inside Peasy). The plugin adds a dialog and a keybinding to allow to quickly type the prefix of a tag name to jump to its definition or location. If the prefix is ambigious, it gives a list of candidates so I can chose one.</p>
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<p>This sounds like a generalized case of auto-complete and jump-to-def/decl. I see no reason why it's incompatible with an extended ft-plugin API (as initiated in <a href="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1195" class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-url="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1195" data-id="173359447" data-error-text="Failed to load issue title" data-permission-text="Issue title is private">#1195</a>) and necessarily has to expose TagManager guts to plugins to perform its function.</p>

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