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naming convention based file toggling facility
From: |
Robert Anderson |
Subject: |
naming convention based file toggling facility |
Date: |
25 Sep 2003 00:07:31 -0700 |
I've had a hackish little elisp function for years that always struck me
as a slightly surprising omission from emacs: the ability to toggle
between files based on a naming convention like: <source>.c and
<source>.h.
This of course, generalizes to more contexts. I use it for toggling
between header, implementation, and unittest files, for example, based
on the convention that the corresonding unittest file is
<source>-test.c. I'm sure it's useful elsewhere, given a reasonable
method for defining the relationship between the names of the related
files.
This kind of "toggle header" or "toggle source" function is standard IDE
fare. I got used to it from a previous life when I was using Metrowerks
Codewarrior. It's _very_ handy, IMO.
Is there some reason that such a thing is not included in emacs? Maybe
it's there and I've missed it? Would the maintainers be interested in
such a facility if I were to write it?
Bob