Re: Switching between foo.c and foo.h

[despen]

Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> writes:

> On Sun, 2011-08-28, despen@verizon.net wrote:
>> Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> writes:
>>
>>> This is a bit embarrassing.
>>>
>>> Two years or so ago I asked for a function to switch to the "other"
>>> buffer for pairs such as a C header file and the C source file with a
>>> matching name, potentially find:ing the file first.  Then I forgot
>>> about it.
>>>
>>> Then, while browsing some obscure corner of the Emacs 22 manual, I
>>> found that such a function already existed. As I recall it, it had a
>>> non-obvious name. It was bound by default (at least in C mode) to some
>>> three-stroke keyboard command.
>>>
>>> And now when I want to start using it, and I can no longer find it.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know offhand which command I'm talking about?  It doesn't
>>> seem to be part of CC mode, and it's not listed in the "Misc Buffer"
>>> node, which I remember reading when I stumbled upon it. Nor can I find
>>> it using C-x C-h. Perhaps I was dreaming?
>>
>> Search terms:
>>
>> emacs find header file
>>
>> Reasonable result:
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/3tgz23s
>>
>> (ff-find-other-file)
>
> Thanks! That's the one (documented under the alias
> ff-find-related-file). I'll try to use it from now on.
>
> (In case you wonder, I really *did* spend a good half hour searching
> the Emacs manual for it. Not that it's easy to cover everything in
> the most logical place, assuming there is one ...)

Emacs manuals are good, but not so much for "how do I do this with
Emacs".  Google searches tend to end up in the various Emacs Wikis
more than in the online copies of the emacs manuals.

At least that's my experience.

-- 
Dan Espen