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: About definition finding Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:05:37 +0100 Message-ID: <877glktnda.fsf@web.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1362593042 23598 80.91.229.3 (6 Mar 2013 18:04:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 18:04:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 06 19:04:26 2013 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 1UDIhV-0000yX-IL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:04:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52561 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UDIh9-0004Wp-TO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:04:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:44380) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UDIgy-0004Ss-V7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:03:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UDIgw-0000de-O4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:03:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.11]:58314) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UDIgw-0000cv-E9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:03:50 -0500 Original-Received: from drachen.dragon ([89.204.137.234]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb003) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MGRYe-1U09YK1Ajg-00DtWh; Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:03:48 +0100 Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Xue Fuqiao's message of "Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:28:10 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:DVLPtLuODk4No2PQIolS/h8eVE2IhHt2enTubkWp4tk rqOQ0EcZqoKqZTAShiN0lhGdR0KfX+oI/exrOTRlB808I0awFV +SZvN7B+UwnrMdzI96Y5UsTUos2IZFZxv4I2/d0r6FoDiEScbd LE+cClv65xue8foGHGhE9BTpdzfhVF4/o1zbQjW+idlYCMuI1D UFt1wFOve8XH8LWNV3lCRB5JD+dqViAS01WgNGe2EM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.11 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:89392 Archived-At: Xue Fuqiao 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.