Re: [acm@muc.de: Re: Emacs 22.2 release plans - request for a slight delay.]

[martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>]

 > Guten Morgen, Martin!

Good morning, Alan!

 > I think the answer to this is to write the following in cc-cmds.el:
 >
 >     (defun c-defun-name (&optional pos)
 >       "Return the name of the current function, or the one at POS.
 >
 >     \"Function\" here means any named structure with a brace block, and
 >     \"current\" means the one surrounding point, starting or terminating at
 >     point.
 >
 >     If there is no current function, return nil."
 >     .....
 >     )
 >
 > That should reduce the above `add-change-log-entry''s time to ~ 1 second.

That would be fine, indeed.  Although `c-top-level-object-name' would be
sooo much better ;-)

 > Isn't there some sort of cacheing of p-p-s?  Anyhow, let us rejoice, not
 > puzzle, over this.  :-)

The syntax cache was introduced in Emacs 22, hence if you want to keep
backward compatibility ...