From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: ELisp function prototypes and local function name Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:36:38 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87ei5fqz6h.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302097055 32499 80.91.229.12 (6 Apr 2011 13:37:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 13:37:35 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 06 15:37:31 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1Q7SvK-00055F-3X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:37:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48836 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q7Sv2-0005H0-9b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:37:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42529 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q7Sut-0005Db-Il for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:37:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7Sui-0002Hf-Ej for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:36:54 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:44256) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7Sui-0002HO-9I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:36:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7Suf-0004iQ-OH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:36:49 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:36:49 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:36:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rwauQffd7+bQ37PNwvF5PYJMK0o= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:138235 Archived-At: I often find myself needing to know the prototype of a function I'm calling dynamically. Is there a way to get that? The ELisp reference manual doesn't have the info AFAICT. Also I'd like to have a simple way (tracing backwards through frames is not it, because every form and its cousin get in there) to get the symbol of the currently running function. So I could say: (defun blah () (format "running in function %s" __FUNCTION_NAME__)) => "running in function blah" (defun info (function-name) (format "called from function %s" function-name)) (defun blah () (info __FUNCTION_NAME__)) => "called from function blah" Is that possible? Thanks Ted