Re: edit-symbol-at-point ( M-. ) not working for me in guile, but only in gauche

[Andreas Reuleaux]

Hi, thanks a lot, and yes: that was it!

I had just used modules - not defined a module


--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(use-modules
   
 (sxml match)
 (sxml transform)
 (sxml simple)
  ...

 (ice-9 pretty-print)
 
 (sxml apply-templates)
   
 ;; cut
 (srfi srfi-26)
 
 ;; match
 (ice-9 match) 
 )
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


And now I have both: a module definition, and usage as above
And M-. works (after C-c C-k -- yes!)




--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(define-module (stuff))

(use-modules
   
 (sxml match)
 (sxml transform)
 (sxml simple)
  ...

 (ice-9 pretty-print)
 
 (sxml apply-templates)
   
 ;; cut
 (srfi srfi-26)
 
 ;; match
 (ice-9 match) 
 )
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


Or more compact maybe:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(define-module (stuff)
  #:use-module (sxml match)
  #:use-module (sxml transform)
  #:use-module (sxml simple)
  ...
  )
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---




Many thanks again!
  -A


PS: I am list-replying - sorry if you get my message twice now! [?]






Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz <mail@jao.io> writes:

> Hi Andreas,
>
> On Tue, Aug 16 2022, Andreas Reuleaux wrote:
>
>
> [...]
>
>> I compile buffers with C-k
>
> I guess you mean C-c C-k here...
>
>
> [...]
>
>> The problem is: this works for me only in gauche - not in geiser guile:
>>
>> Any time I do M-. on some symbol (function name etc.) in guile files, I only 
>> get to see
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> Symbol not found (...)
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> there are a thousand things yet to learn for me about geiser, but I would 
>> like to have
>> this basic M-. working in geiser guile first.
>
> That should work without problems provided you're using modules in the
> usual way (it'd also work without, but there're some caveats).  So, if
> you have a file foo.scm looking like, say:
>
> (define-module (foo))
>
> (define foo-val 42)
>
> (define (foo) foo-val)
>
> and put your cursor, after C-c C-k (and with a running guile REPL), on
> foo-val in the last line and press M-., don't you go to foo-val in line
> 3?
>
> That said, many of the guile built-in's are implemented in C (you'll now
> because their module is just (guile)), so trying to go to their
> definition won't work.  Maybe that's what's happening to you?
>
> Cheers,
> jao