Re: edit-symbol-at-point ( M-. ) not working for me in guile, but only in gauche

[Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz]

Hi Andreas,

On Tue, Aug 16 2022, Andreas Reuleaux wrote:


[...]

> I compile buffers with C-k

I guess you mean C-c C-k here...


[...]

> The problem is: this works for me only in gauche - not in geiser guile:
>
> Any time I do M-. on some symbol (function name etc.) in guile files, I only 
> get to see
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Symbol not found (...)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> there are a thousand things yet to learn for me about geiser, but I would 
> like to have
> this basic M-. working in geiser guile first.

That should work without problems provided you're using modules in the
usual way (it'd also work without, but there're some caveats).  So, if
you have a file foo.scm looking like, say:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(define-module (foo))

(define foo-val 42)

(define (foo) foo-val)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

and put your cursor, after C-c C-k (and with a running guile REPL), on
foo-val in the last line and press M-., don't you go to foo-val in line
3?

That said, many of the guile built-in's are implemented in C (you'll now
because their module is just (guile)), so trying to go to their
definition won't work.  Maybe that's what's happening to you?

Cheers,
jao
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