From: dwolffxx@panix.com (David Wolff)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: which-function-mode + visual-basic-mode?
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:39:05 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <g2n6r9$m86$1@reader2.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.12074.1211514209.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.12074.1211514209.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> wrote:
> David Wolff wrote:
>> In article <mailman.11865.1211251654.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
>> Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> David Wolff wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Emacs 22.2. which-function-mode does the right thing for Emacs Lisp
>>>> files and other modes that I don't remember off-hand, but not for
>>>> visual-basic-mode... nothing shows up in the mode line even after ESC-:
>>>> (which-function-mode 1). Any ideas?
>>> Hmmm, `M-x apropos RET visual-basic RET' says:
>>>
>>> No apropos matches for `visual-basic'
>>
>> Right, I found visual-basic-mode somewhere on that internet thingy. I
>> took a look at which-func.el but it's not very clear how it figures out
>> the current function -- sort of looks like imenu magic. So how does
>> which-func work correctly for several programming modes but not
>> visual-basic-mode?
>
> The first thing I see in which-func.el is that you'll need to add
> visual-basic-mode to which-func-modes, and perhaps to
> which-func-non-auto-modes.
>
> If visual-basic-mode support imenu, then you should be good to go.
> And if beginning-of-defun works in that mode, that might be good
> enough.
>
> Otherwise, you could try defining a function that returns the name
> of the current function in visual-basic-mode, then assign that to
> which-func-functions (actually, use add-hook with non-nil LOCAL arg).
Well, I looked at this some more, and it's looking more complicated than
I have time for. I was hoping that a simple answer existed (especially
since which-func is not exactly crucial).
Kevin, thanks for your effort on this.
-- David
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-16 22:10 which-function-mode + visual-basic-mode? David Wolff
2008-05-20 2:47 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.11865.1211251654.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-05-23 1:31 ` David Wolff
2008-05-23 3:43 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.12074.1211514209.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-06-11 0:39 ` David Wolff [this message]
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