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Re: Speedbar question
From: |
John Wilde |
Subject: |
Re: Speedbar question |
Date: |
24 Mar 2003 17:03:04 -0800 |
thanks eric,
i had the imenu-generic-expression variable set, but still no luck.
i notice that no changes i make to the text-mode.el file seem to have
any effect. in fact i can take it out of the directory tree and my
text-mode loads up just fine. am i modifying the wrong file??
-john
Eric Ludlam <eludlam@mathworks.com> wrote in message
news:<koy934vp8q.fsf@ludlame-mac.dhcp.mathworks.com>...
> You also need to set imenu-generic-expression in test-mode, probably
> like this:
>
> (make-local-variable 'imenu-generic-expression)
> (setq imenu-generic-expression text-mode-imenu-generic-expression)
>
> Eric
>
> >>> jwilde@draper.com (John Wilde) seems to think that:
> >thanks.
> >
> >i am trying to add imenu support for the text-mode such that it
> >accomplishes this, looking at how other modes (eg fortran.el) do
> >this, i defined the appropriate 'text-mode-imenu-generic-expression'
> >variable in my text-mode.el file, but the text mode still does not
> >support imenu. any suggestions on what i'm missing and where i can
> >look for more help on this?
> >
> >thanks, john
> >
> >
> >Eric Ludlam <eludlam@mathworks.com> wrote in message
> >news:<koptolx1xm.fsf@ludlame-mac.dhcp.mathworks.com>...
> >> >>> jwilde@draper.com (John Wilde) seems to think that:
> >> >I would like to use the speedbar for a custom file type and define a
> >> >regular expression that determines the line in the file to jump to. i
> >> >am able to run etags to create the TAGS file that I want, but how do I
> >> >make this work with speedbar so that it will expand into a list?
> >> >(Like, for example, the way functions are listed when a .cpp file is
> >> >opened)
> >>
> >> The easiest way to do this is to support imenu. Imenu has it's own
> >> documentation in Emacs. You can read on how to accomplish this.
> >>
> >> Once you have done this, you can add this to your .emacs or imenu
> >> support file:
> >>
> >> (speedbar-add-supported-extension ".foo")
> >>
> >> to tell speedbar to try and expand tags in this file.
> >>
> >> Good Luck
> >> Eric