Re: Jump to autoconf macro documentation

[Le Wang <l26wang@gmail.com>]

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You haven't said why it doesn't work.  Maybe you need to look into error
handling?

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/elisp/html_node/Handling-Errors.html

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On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com>wrote:

> To be more complete I thought that I could do the following thing, first I
> try
> to look for the macro definition in aclocal.m4, and if it's not there I try
> in the Info page.
>
> So I came up with something like
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>
>  (setq autoconf-macro-syntax-table (make-syntax-table))
>  (modify-syntax-entry ?_ "w" autoconf-macro-syntax-table)
>
>  (defun get-autoconf-macro-definition ()
>    "jump to the definition of a macro"
>    (interactive)
>    (let
>        ((macro (with-syntax-table autoconf-macro-syntax-table
> (thing-at-point 'word))))
>       (unless (get-autoconf-macro-local macro)
>         (info "autoconf" (concat "*autconf*<" macro ">"))
>         (Info-index macro))))
>
>  (defun get-autoconf-macro-local (macro)
>    "Look for the definition of the macro in aclocal.m4 before"
>    (let
>        ((local-macro-file "aclocal.m4"))
>      (if (file-exists-p local-macro-file)
>          (save-excursion
>            (find-file local-macro-file)
>            (search-forward (format "AC_DEFUN([%s])" macro)))
>        nil)))
>
>  (add-hook 'autoconf-mode-hook
>            (lambda ()
>              (local-set-key "\C-j" 'get-autoconf-macro-definition)))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> What doesn't work yet is how to return false (and thus return to the
> previous state in case
> the macro is not found anywhere.
>
> And I should give an error message if I don't find the macro with
> Info-index as well, any idea?
>
>
>


-- 
Le

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