[Caml-list] a question about Merlin

[Caml-list] a question about Merlin

[Matej Košík]

Hi,

I've found a situation, in which Merlin's Locate command fails (?) in Emacs.

When, whithin my program, I position my cursor on "option" type 
identifier and invoke the Locate command, I get the message:

   "didn't manage to find option"

In some cases Merlin is able to "jump into" the standard library
(e.g., in case of functions defined therein)
but not in case of types.

Is this something to be expected?

Re: [Caml-list] a question about Merlin

[Erkki Seppala]

Hello,

Matej Košík <5764c029b688c1c0d24a2e97cd764f@gmail.com> writes:

> When, whithin my program, I position my cursor on "option" type
> identifier and invoke the Locate command, I get the message:
>
>   "didn't manage to find option"

Yes, this is something to expect. The option type (among with int, char,
etc) is built into the compiler and is created programmatically during
compile time.

You can find the predefined types from typing/predef.ml, but they are
not defined in a form that's suitable for Merlin to find.

Though it would be totally awesome if it did, along with jumping to C
code. Maybe with some annotations.. :-)

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