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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About definition finding
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:05:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877glktnda.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.21544.1362576522.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> (Xue Fuqiao's message of "Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:28:10 +0800")

Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> writes:

> In (info "(elisp) Coding Conventions"):
>
>    * Constructs that define a function or variable should be macros,
>      not functions, and their names should start with `define-'.  The
>      macro should receive the name to be defined as the first argument.
>      That will help various tools find the definition automatically.
>      Avoid constructing the names in the macro itself, since that would
>      confuse these tools.
>
> Which tools will make use of it?  Imenu/etags/...?

Also `find-func.el' comes to my mind.

Michael.



       reply	other threads:[~2013-03-06 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.21544.1362576522.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-03-06 18:05 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2013-03-06 13:28 About definition finding Xue Fuqiao
2013-03-06 16:11 ` Drew Adams
2013-03-06 22:18   ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-03-06 22:31     ` Drew Adams
2013-03-06 22:41       ` Xue Fuqiao

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