[Openmcl-devel] Two quick questions

[Alexander Repenning]

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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