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Re: [ELPA] New package: marginalia
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Daniel Mendler |
Subject: |
Re: [ELPA] New package: marginalia |
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Wed, 2 Jun 2021 17:07:54 +0200 |
On 6/2/21 4:46 PM, Jens C. Jensen wrote:
> I ended up with something like:
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (cond
> ((commandp sym) 'command)
> ((macrop sym) 'macro)
> ((functionp sym) 'function)
> ((booleanp sym) 'boolean)
> ((keywordp sym) 'keyword)
> ((keymapp (symbol-value sym)) 'keymap)
> ((facep sym) 'face)
> ((boundp sym) 'variable)
> ((symbolp sym) 'symbol))
> #+end_src
>
> It has worked fine for my use-case thus far, but is neither complete nor
> robust enough for documentation, as Daniel pointed out emacs-lisp is a Lisp-2
> - the above code completely misses this point.
Yes exactly, such a classifier should return a list of types. The
Marginalia symbol annotator gets this right and annotates each symbol
with multiple characters. I like this annotation functionality when
doing Elisp hacking. Also `marginalia-annotate-variable` is quite useful.
Jens, where are you using this classifier in your configuration?
Daniel