Re: address@hidden: Re: Emacs 22.2 release plans - request for a slight delay.]

[martin rudalics]

> Guten Morgen, Martin!

Good morning, Alan!

> I think the answer to this is to write the following in cc-cmds.el:
>
>     (defun c-defun-name (&optional pos)
>       "Return the name of the current function, or the one at POS.
>
>     \"Function\" here means any named structure with a brace block, and
>     \"current\" means the one surrounding point, starting or terminating at
>     point.
>
>     If there is no current function, return nil."
>     .....
>     )
>
> That should reduce the above `add-change-log-entry''s time to ~ 1 second.

That would be fine, indeed.  Although `c-top-level-object-name' would be
sooo much better ;-)

> Isn't there some sort of cacheing of p-p-s?  Anyhow, let us rejoice, not
> puzzle, over this.  :-)

The syntax cache was introduced in Emacs 22, hence if you want to keep
backward compatibility ...