Re: Need help writing file-visiting macro

[drkm]

Roy Smith writes:

> In article <7e7jfegat6.fsf@ada2.unipv.it>,
> Thien-Thi Nguyen  <ttn@glug.org> wrote:

>>roy@panix.com (Roy Smith) writes:

>>> I want it to construct the corresponding _Impl.c filename and
>>> visit that file.  Is that possible?

>>it is possible if the correspondance is at least heuristical.

> I'm not sure what you mean by "heuristical", but it certainly is
> deterministic.  For a given file name X.mdl, the corresponding
> implementation file will be X_Impl.c.

  So you just want the correspondance between the file *name*?
Ok:

    (defun rs:get-impl-filename (mdl-name)
      (unless (string-match "^\\(.+\\)\\.mdl$" mdl-name)
        (error "Not a MDL file name" mdl-name))
      (concat (match-string 1 mdl-name) "_Impl.c"))

--drkm