From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Jump to autoconf macro documentation Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 09:16:31 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296404235 32387 80.91.229.12 (30 Jan 2011 16:17:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:17:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 30 17:17:11 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PjZxe-0007wL-Kf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:17:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43896 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PjZxd-0006By-JV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:17:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=32853 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PjZwy-0006Ai-DB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:16:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PjZwv-0004UA-Le for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:16:26 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:50447) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PjZwv-0004Tr-Aw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:16:25 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PjZwt-0007dM-DO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:16:23 +0100 Original-Received: from c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.96.241]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:16:23 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:16:23 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 51 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78854 Archived-At: On 1/30/11 3:47 AM, Andrea Crotti wrote: > > I would like to help myself to understand and write correct Configure.ac > files. > > Now one idea would be to be able to jump from the macro to its > definition. > > So I found that the definition of every macro is given in the autoconf > Info page, for example under with the string: > > Macro: AC_ARG_ENABLE > > so it would be easy to jump to. > > Only one problem, how (thing-at-point 'word) doesn't work well with > > AC_ARG_ENABLE for example, so or I redefine locally how a word should be > (if possible), or I have to do some other regexp trick to get it. (thing-at-point 'sexp) > Another problem is that I don't get how to look for, if I have an Info > buffer already open it uses that position. So maybe it's better if I > create a new Info buffer and use it. (info "autoconf" "*autoconf*") > And also how do I jump to an info page from the TOC: RET is bound to > this: > > (Info-follow-nearest-node&optional FORK) > > But I think there is a smarter way than doing a search-regexp and then > use that function, right? Yes: Info-index is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `info.el'. (Info-index TOPIC) Look up a string TOPIC in the index for this manual and go to that entry. If there are no exact matches to the specified topic, this chooses the first match which is a case-insensitive substring of a topic. Use the , command to see the other matches. Give an empty topic name to go to the Index node itself. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA