Re: Is there a "selective setq locator/highlighter" anywhere?

[Stefan Monnier]

> I sometimes have problems with long rambling elisp defuns, in that some
> critical variable, say `c-state-cache' is updated in several (or even
> many) places in the defun, and it's difficult to see the places it gets
> changed.

> Hi-lock-mode is helpful here, in that I can highlight occurances of
> "c-state-cache" and occurances of "setq".  But the longer and ramblinger
> a defun becomes, the less helpful is this.

> I would like a tool which would highlight these:

>     (setq foo bar
>           c-state-cache (cdr c-state-cache))
>     (setcar c-state-cache (caar c-state-cache))

> , but not this:

>     (setq old-cache c-state-cache)

> .  Does anybody know of anything like this in existance?

I don't.  But you could start by changing all your (setq var1 val1 var2
val2 ...) forms so as to only use (setq var val).  That should make it
a lot easier.


        Stefan