From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: inserting code based on syntactic information in cc-mode
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:38:32 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hfu3j8$15op$1@colin2.muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: af0b487e-69c2-4252-b4d3-8c5f25cf772b@o9g2000prg.googlegroups.com
SameerDS <sameerds@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I want to write elisp functions that can insert code based on the
> syntactic information at the point where they are invoked. For
> example, typing an opening brace at the start of a function definition
> should automatically insert the closing brace and put point on a new
> line between the two. But when an opening brace is typed at the start
> of a class description, it should also insert a semi-colon after the
> closing brace. Such a function might be easily written as a skeleton.
> What I need is a way to inspect the local syntactic information when
> the '{' key is pressed and then call the appropriate function.
> For this, I've been going through the documentation for CC-mode
> looking for a function that returns the syntax information for the
> current line. Basically a function that is equivalent to c-show-
> syntactic-information, but which can be used in elisp code directly. I
> couldn't find such a function ... is there a way to do this at all in
> CC-mode?
The function you need is `c-guess-basic-syntax', which is in the file
cc-engine.el. The innards of that function aren't for the faint hearted.
> Sameer.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-11 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-23 9:38 inserting code based on syntactic information in cc-mode SameerDS
2009-11-23 9:44 ` Joost Kremers
2009-11-23 9:58 ` SameerDS
2009-11-23 10:42 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-23 11:03 ` SameerDS
2009-12-11 11:16 ` SameerDS
2009-12-11 16:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-12-11 17:09 ` harven
2009-12-11 18:38 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2009-12-12 3:14 ` SameerDS
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