Mercurial > emacs
changeset 70013:d30be4cf861a
(find-function-search-for-symbol): Add comments.
| author | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> |
|---|---|
| date | Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:31:23 +0000 |
| parents | 5ef1c2eeca24 |
| children | 876ca9433460 |
| files | lisp/emacs-lisp/find-func.el |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
line wrap: on
line diff
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/find-func.el Thu Apr 13 13:50:07 2006 +0000 +++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/find-func.el Thu Apr 13 14:31:23 2006 +0000 @@ -228,6 +228,14 @@ (with-syntax-table emacs-lisp-mode-syntax-table (goto-char (point-min)) (if (or (re-search-forward regexp nil t) + ;; `regexp' matches definitions using known forms like + ;; `defun', or `defvar'. But some functions/variables + ;; are defined using special macros (or functions), so + ;; if `regexp' can't find the definition, we look for + ;; something of the form "(SOMETHING <symbol> ...)". + ;; This fails to distinguish function definitions from + ;; variable declarations (or even uses thereof), but is + ;; a good pragmatic fallback. (re-search-forward (concat "^([^ ]+" find-function-space-re "['(]?" (regexp-quote (symbol-name symbol))