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From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
To: Glen Stark <mail@glenstark.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Search within function for text
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:44:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zj72763m.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <QDdQw.393363$pU1.53944@fx24.am4> (Glen Stark's message of "Tue,  24 Mar 2015 13:28:16 GMT")

Glen Stark <mail@glenstark.net> writes:

Hi Glen,

> I would like to find all occurences of a bit of text that fall within
> a certain function name.  I'm programming in C++, and several classes
> have their own implementations of foo(), and I'd like to find all
> occurrences of the string "bar" within functions named "foo()".

At least you can't do that with regular expressions but you need to
something which actually understands C++ syntax.

> Does anyone know of a way I can do this?

Have a look at CEDET.  Assuming foo is not just a string but a variable
or function, `semantic-symref' might do exactly what you want:

  http://cedet.sourceforge.net/symref.shtml

Bye,
Tassilo



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-03-24 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-24 13:28 Search within function for text Glen Stark
2015-03-24 15:21 ` Drew Adams
2015-03-24 15:44 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2015-03-24 16:53 ` Louis Höfler
2015-03-24 16:57 ` Louis Höfler

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