From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sean Sieger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Best way to get hang of an elisp file? Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:35:01 -0500 Message-ID: <87vbztohre.fsf@gmail.com> References: <20131018185232.2084581e@aga-netbook> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1384526141 28961 80.91.229.3 (15 Nov 2013 14:35:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 14:35:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 15 15:35:44 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 1VhKUq-00085m-3S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 15:35:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60611 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VhKUp-00011a-FJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:35:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60184) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VhKUO-00010c-Pd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:35:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VhKUI-0007z5-U7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:35:16 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34766) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VhKUI-0007yv-Ng for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:35:10 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VhKUC-0007do-Md for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 15:35:04 +0100 Original-Received: from pool-74-101-84-254.nycmny.east.verizon.net ([74.101.84.254]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 15:35:04 +0100 Original-Received: from sean.sieger by pool-74-101-84-254.nycmny.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 15:35:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-74-101-84-254.nycmny.east.verizon.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RONR03A2Dsg/zsooBCg6GoJFTo0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:94499 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> they /do/ instead of how they are implemented, I'm curious whether >> there exists something like "outline mode", hiding everything but the > > Yes, it's called outline-minor-mode ;-) > For Elisp, I additionally use: > > (add-hook 'outline-minor-mode-hook > (lambda () > (when (and outline-minor-mode (derived-mode-p 'emacs-lisp-mode)) > (hide-sublevels 1000)))) > > which starts outline-minor-mode by hiding all the bodies of functions. > I also use `reveal-mode' which automatically unhides the bodies when you > try to move the cursor into them (so you don't need to remember the key > sequences to use for opening/closing elements). > > > Stefan Thanks. I would like to compare the two elisp libraries, BBDB 2 and BBDB 3, for copyright purposes and would appreciate any other suggestions that'll aid a plebe such as myself in the endeavor. How to differentiate, for instance, Jamie's work from Roland's work? No diff list like GNU Emacs has?