Re: IDE tools for maintaining Emacs Lisp programs (Org in particular)

[Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>]

Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:

> For all practical purposes, I find this be sufficient.
>
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-c f")
> 		(lambda ()
> 		  (interactive)
> 		  (require 'finder)
> 		  (let ((thing (intern (thing-at-point 'symbol))))
> 		    (if (functionp thing)
> 			(find-function thing)
> 		      (find-variable thing)))))
>
> Put your cursor on a variable or a function, C-c f and you are staring
> right at the definition of the variable or function.  For this to work,
> the library defining the function or variable should already be
> loaded.

Just discovered this from find-func.el

(require 'find-func)
(find-function-setup-keys)

will install the below keymap for you.

It would have been more practical if these functions, made a decision of
whether some symbol is a function or a variable automatically.  There is
also this C-x K.

,----
| (defun find-function-setup-keys ()
|   "Define some key bindings for the find-function family of functions."
|   (define-key ctl-x-map "F" 'find-function)
|   (define-key ctl-x-4-map "F" 'find-function-other-window)
|   (define-key ctl-x-5-map "F" 'find-function-other-frame)
|   (define-key ctl-x-map "K" 'find-function-on-key)
|   (define-key ctl-x-map "V" 'find-variable)
|   (define-key ctl-x-4-map "V" 'find-variable-other-window)
|   (define-key ctl-x-5-map "V" 'find-variable-other-frame))
`----

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