From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: elisp programming - navigate through code? Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:10:26 +0100 Message-ID: <874n2gho4t.fsf@web.de> References: <878urt0x1v.fsf@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396116673 2284 80.91.229.3 (29 Mar 2014 18:11:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:11:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 29 19:11:07 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WTxik-00080K-Te for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:11:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40462 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTxik-0000Cg-BL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:11:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34290) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTxiS-0000CS-CR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:10:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTxiK-0002Vk-Tt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:10:48 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60514) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTxiK-0002UZ-NC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:10:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WTxiJ-0007gE-Ew for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:10:39 +0100 Original-Received: from ip-90-186-45-33.web.vodafone.de ([90.186.45.33]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:10:39 +0100 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-186-45-33.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:10:39 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-186-45-33.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:93zRLR+zTt2hLTLm+mYoGiZ4PqY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96838 Archived-At: Hi Martin, > This is now specially for elisp, but maybe its possible for other > things to > (ruby on rails - ruby, javascript, coffeescript, ...) > > Is there a way to navigate better through my code. > > like having a function (foo arg1 arg2) putting the cursor to foo will > C-h f suggest I want to read the docstring for that. Thats good. > > But now I'd like to navigate to the definition (which can be in the same > buffer or somewhere else). Is that possbile? For elisp, you can use something like this: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (progn (require 'thingatpt) (defun my-find-symbol-at-point () "Find the definition of the symbol at point." (interactive) (let ((sym (symbol-at-point))) (funcall (pcase sym ((pred facep) #'find-face) ((pred symbol-function) #'find-function) (_ #'find-variable)) sym))) (global-set-key [(shift return)] #'my-find-symbol-at-point)) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Michael.