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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stephen Gildea <stepheng+emacs@gildea.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: a property "definition-type" would help find macro-defined tests
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:31:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86bjwh4hcn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <234754.1736288018@pental.sg.gildea.net> (message from Stephen Gildea on Tue, 07 Jan 2025 14:13:38 -0800)

> From: Stephen Gildea <stepheng+emacs@gildea.com>
> Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 14:13:38 -0800
> 
> In the two weeks since posting the proposal for a new property
> "definition-type" (find-function-search-for-symbol would use
> it instead of the passed-in type to find a definition), I have
> received only one response, an enthusiastic "yes, please!"
> 
> So unless I hear any objections now, I will go ahead and add this feature.
> 
> In addition to the small code and doc-string changes to
> find-function-search-for-symbol, I will expand the Emacs Lisp
> manual's documentation of definition-name in node "Standard
> Properties" to include definition-type.  I will also mention
> definition-type, with cross reference, in "defining functions
> dynamically" and, in the ERT manual, in "How to Write Tests".

Please post the full patch before you install it.  Your original
message only shows a very small part of the tip of this particular
iceberg, which makes it hard to provide useful feedback.

Thanks.



  reply	other threads:[~2025-01-08 12:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-21 16:53 a property "definition-type" would help find macro-defined tests Stephen Gildea
2024-12-22 17:12 ` Richard Lawrence
2025-01-07 22:13 ` Stephen Gildea
2025-01-08 12:31   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2025-01-08 17:44     ` Stephen Gildea
2025-01-09  6:57       ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-01-10  4:47         ` Stephen Gildea
2025-01-10  7:08           ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-01-11 19:43             ` Stephen Gildea
2025-01-12  5:32               ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-01-12 17:06                 ` Stephen Gildea
2025-01-12 18:38                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-01-13  4:44                     ` Stephen Gildea
2025-01-13  9:03                       ` Eshel Yaron
2025-01-13 21:34                         ` Stephen Gildea
2025-01-14  7:21                           ` Eshel Yaron
2025-01-15  3:14                             ` Stephen Gildea
2025-01-15  7:30                               ` Eshel Yaron
2025-01-15 21:17                                 ` Stephen Gildea
2025-01-16  6:20                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-01-16 14:47                                     ` Stephen Gildea
2025-01-16 23:45                                     ` Stephen Gildea
2025-01-17  7:17                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-01-22  5:27                                         ` Stephen Gildea
2025-01-22 14:18                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-01-23  3:16                                             ` Stephen Gildea
2025-01-23  8:05                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-01-23 17:14                                                 ` Stephen Gildea
2025-01-23 17:44                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-01-23 21:52                                                     ` Stephen Gildea
2025-01-15 14:34                               ` Eli Zaretskii

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