From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Getting further information from describe-function Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:11:17 -0700 Message-ID: <91B5D39EA530425782D3014F1BB4EE9B@us.oracle.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1277759639 17488 80.91.229.12 (28 Jun 2010 21:13:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:13:59 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Deniz Dogan'" , "'Emacs-Devel devel'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 28 23:13:55 2010 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 1OTLeF-0000Tr-HO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:13:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41454 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OTLeE-0003np-Jc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:13:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42038 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OTLe5-0003mq-7I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:13:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OTLe3-00020J-So for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:13:37 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:34517) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OTLe3-00020D-M0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:13:35 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id o5SLDWvE029311 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:13:34 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt354.oracle.com (acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o5SL88cU011160; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:12:46 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt005.oracle.com by acsmt354.oracle.com with ESMTP id 380517171277759477; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:11:17 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:11:15 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AcsXArCT7Yp1BSH1Rkiu3rn7OjnINQAA5+Uw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5931 In-Reply-To: X-Source-IP: acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090207.4C291059.0005:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:126482 Archived-At: > I would like to write a little function which acts like the > completing-read of describe-function but the completion buffer should > use customizable faces which indicate whether what is completed to are > obsolote, macros, etc. One could even imagine using customizable > format strings for the output, possibly to be able to indicate e.g. > where the functions are defined. describe-function in its current > state is rather "dumb", simply using completing-read over obarray on > symbols that "are fboundp". > > So to write this feature I had in mind...where do I start? Icicles. ;-)