Re: cldoc.el 1.3 --- show Common Lisp function arglist in echo area

[Yuji Minejima]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote in message news:<address@hidden>...
> > Currently almost all the code is from eldocl.el. But I think it's already
> > useful.
> 
> I recent versions of eldoc.el, you can use:
> 
> (defvar eldoc-print-current-symbol-info-function nil
>   "If non-nil, function to call to return doc string.
> The function of no args should return a one-line string for displaying
> doc about a function etc. appropriate to the context around point.
> It should return nil if there's no doc appropriate for the context.
> Typically doc is returned if point is on a function-like name or in its
> arg list.
> 
> This variable is expected to be made buffer-local by modes (other than
> Emacs Lisp mode) that support Eldoc.")
> 
> 
>         Stefan

Thanks for the information. eldoc.el version 1.18 which I inherited
the code from seems not to have that.  I'll check to see if this
facility is general enough to support what I want to do in cldoc.el.

Yuji.