[Openmcl-devel] Two quick questions

Alexander Repenning ralex at cs.colorado.edu
Mon Aug 24 19:46:44 PDT 2009


what would the function be? In MCL we had the XML reader  
automatically  jump to the position via some Fred function. Very handy.

Alex

On Aug 24, 2009, at 7:25 PM, Gail Zacharias wrote:

> At 8/24/2009 07:50 PM, Ron Garret wrote:
>> 1.  I'm getting this error:
>>
>>> Error: Reader error on #<STRING-INPUT-STREAM  #x3000423D1A0D>, near
>> position 8933, within...
>>
>> Is there an easy way for me to move the cursor to position 8933?
>
> I usually do m-< c-u 8933 c-f
>
>
>> 2.  This is a before-I-reinvent-the-wheel kind of question: MCL had a
>> facility that would put the docstring of a symbol in a pop-up window.
>> Does this exist in CCL?  If so, how do you access it?
>
> As far as I know, nothing like that exists.  The inspector should
> show the doc string in more cases than it does, but that wouldn't
> help anyway because there is currently no easy way to invoke the  
> inspector...
>
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> rg
>>
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