From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How can function know its own name? Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 13:31:42 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87k093wyig.fsf@posteo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27006"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/+ () (2022-05-21) Cc: Help GNU Emacs To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 26 23:03:03 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o5ZPK-0006pt-Kt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 23:03:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33934 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o5ZPJ-0007za-Jm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 17:03:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43802) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o5ZNz-0007wC-8r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 17:01:39 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:55697) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o5ZNx-0001YZ-LC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 17:01:38 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.239.4.67]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000087C57.0000000062B8C92F.000037F7; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 14:01:34 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Philip Kaludercic , Help GNU Emacs Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87k093wyig.fsf@posteo.net> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -1 X-Spam_score: -0.2 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.2 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DATE_IN_PAST_06_12=1.543, RCVD_IN_SBL=0.141, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:138110 Archived-At: * Philip Kaludercic [2022-06-26 12:45]: > This might do the job: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/2310/can-functions-access-their-name/2312#2312 This way it somehow starts working. Condition is that I have to call `my-function-name' in the first `let' as otherwise the index would change. It is very useful however on my side. I can also get arguments to function. I will use that for refresh and logging. (defun my-function-name () (cadr (backtrace-frame 5))) (defun my-aware-function () (let ((my-name (my-function-name))) my-name)) (my-aware-function) ⇒ my-aware-function -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/