Re: Prototype Comments

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Danny, Christian and others.. Thanks for your help in getting those > prototype comments into the files. This is going to make it much easier > to autogenerate a complete function listing. There are still a bunch of > files to be done, so if anybody reading this list has some spare time, > please go right ahead and find yourself some built-in functions and add > the appropriate prototype comments. > > I am also wondering if it might be possible to create some sort of data > file that could be read by various editors. I am thinking along the lines > of highlighting a word in your editor and hitting a key and it looks up > this word in the data file and shows you the full prototype and one-line > description for that function. It could even do function name completion, > I suppose. Anybody have any experience teaching things like vim, Emacs, > nedit, etc. to do stuff like this? I think it could be a nifty little > helper for all the PHP developers out there. Sounds like you want to extend the ctags algorithm. The man page lists commands for vim and emacs already. Example: If you want to change the function stack_top, vim -t stack_top will open stack.c and jump to line 64. Looking for another function? Type in ":tag php3_" and skip through all function names beginning with php3_ ... Sascha -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net