Is it possible to have a PsiReference resolve to an offset in the target element?

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This may sound like a strange request, but I have a situation where the target of a reference is basically a plain text file, but I know the specific offset in that file that corresponds to the reference.  It would be overkill to create a new PSI tree for the target file just to resolve to a specific offset into it, but unfortunately I can't seem to find a way to do this without having a PSI element that starts at the desired offset.  Hopefully I'm just missing something?

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You can resolve your reference to an instance of FakePsiElement, redefine it's #navigate method and do the following there:

PsiNavigationSupport.getInstance().createNavigatable(project, virtualFile, offset).navigate(requestFocus)

Thanks, Peter.  That's pretty much what I did, though I didn't know about FakePsiElement and rolled my own that overrides getTextRange() and getStartOffset().  I'll migrate that to FakePsiElement.  Much appreciated!

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