From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Assignment of misc packages for emacs Date: 15 May 2002 23:41:13 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <5xwuu5ozra.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1021495327 32636 127.0.0.1 (15 May 2002 20:42:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 20:42:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 1785b5-0008UH-00 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 22:42:07 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 1785ml-0006As-00 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 22:54:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1785bB-0001HX-00; Wed, 15 May 2002 16:42:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.filanet.dk ([195.215.206.179]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1785ZY-0000vr-00; Wed, 15 May 2002 16:40:32 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs2.cua.dk.cua.dk (unknown [10.1.82.3]) by mail.filanet.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 393F77C016; Wed, 15 May 2002 20:40:30 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.50 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3979 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3979 Eli Zaretskii writes: > On 15 May 2002 no-spam@cua.dk wrote: > > > I'm visiting ~/fsf/emacs/lwlib/xlwmenu.c > > On line 1625, there is a call to the function x_free_dpy_colors. > > I want find out where it is defined & used elsewhere. > > > > I place the cursor on the name of the function and enters M-x match > > (I've bound it to H-m). > > Isn't this a job for ID-utils (which have an Emacs interface)? Once > you've created the ID database by running mkid, the searches are > lightning-fast and very accurate (because mkid knows about tokens in > various programming languages including C). Yes, ID-utils is a great package, and I would love to see it come standard with emacs! But even when I use ID-utils, I often find I fall back to using M-x match. > > Perhaps we should make the ID-utils interface part of Emacs, and expand > it to present a menu of possibilities. Good idea. And do the same for etags (I already have code for this, but unfortunately using a different tags program)! -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk