[Caml-list] caml-info-look

[Caml-list] caml-info-look

[andrieu]

Hello,

I wrote a small Emacs-lisp library for automatically looking up
documentation in OCaml Info files. It's to be used with Info files
generated by OCamldoc (using the texinfo generator).

Calling `caml-info-lookup-id' in a caml-mode buffer on an identifier
(say, String.length) will open an Info window and display the relevant
Info node, with the type and commentary that goes with the identifier.

I don't write much elisp so the code looks a bit hideous but it seems
to work (at least for my Emacs 20.7, I don't know for XEmacs).

http://oandrieu.nerim.net/ocaml/caml-info-look.el

-- 
   Olivier

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Re: [Caml-list] caml-info-look

[Didier Remy]

andrieu@ijm.jussieu.fr writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I wrote a small Emacs-lisp library for automatically looking up
> documentation in OCaml Info files. It's to be used with Info files
> generated by OCamldoc (using the texinfo generator).
> 
> Calling `caml-info-lookup-id' in a caml-mode buffer on an identifier
> (say, String.length) will open an Info window and display the relevant
> Info node, with the type and commentary that goes with the identifier.
> 
> I don't write much elisp so the code looks a bit hideous but it seems
> to work (at least for my Emacs 20.7, I don't know for XEmacs).
> 
> http://oandrieu.nerim.net/ocaml/caml-info-look.el

There is already module caml-help.el (since 3.04) in the emacs distrib part
of caml.el that could already do that. Have you tried it?

It can be parameterized to look for documentation in either standard or
ocamldoc info stylles, or just in the stdlib, which is often the most
convenient. It does completion on (toplevel) Module names and identifiers 
bound in these modules. 

        Didier
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Re: [Caml-list] caml-info-look

[Olivier Andrieu]

 Didier Remy [ 19 March 2002] :
 > There is already module caml-help.el (since 3.04) in the emacs distrib part
 > of caml.el that could already do that. Have you tried it?

No, I hadn't noticed it. But it's not installed by the install target
of the Makefile. Maybe that should be fixed. 

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   Olivier
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Re: [Caml-list] caml-info-look

[Didier Remy]

Olivier Andrieu <andrieu@ijm.jussieu.fr> writes:

>  Didier Remy [ 19 March 2002] :

> But it's not installed by the install target
> of the Makefile. Maybe that should be fixed. 

Yes, this was a mistake. It has just been fixed by Jacques Garrigue.

        Didier
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