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Re: file/line info for macro expansion


From: Maurizio Vitale
Subject: Re: file/line info for macro expansion
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:36:31 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

    >> However, both `find-function' and `find-variable' seem to know
    >> file and line number where a function/variable has been defined.

    Stefan> Emacs knows the file name (in most cases, at least), thanks
    Stefan> to load-history.  But it doesn't know the line number.
    Stefan> Instead, find-function will look for the definition with a
    Stefan> regular expression.

And this is exactly what I'm likely to be doing. I was not aware of the
filename info (thanks Elena) and for my purposeses that is close enough.
Thanks to everybody,

       Maurizio




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