Slime-style navigation for Emacs Lisp
Slime allows very convenient navigation to the symbol at point (using M-.), and the ability to pop back to previous marks (using M-,).
This plugin provides similar navigation for Emacs Lisp, supporting navigation to the definitions of variables, functions, libraries and faces.
Additionally, elisp-slime-nav
provides a way to describe the symbol
at point, whatever its type. As with slime-describe-symbol
, this
functionality is bound both to C-c C-d d and C-c C-d
C-d by default.
Installation
Manual
Ensure elisp-slime-nav.el
is in a directory on your load-path, and
add the following to your ~/.emacs
or ~/.emacs.d/init.el
:
(require 'elisp-slime-nav)
(dolist (hook '(emacs-lisp-mode-hook ielm-mode-hook))
(add-hook hook 'elisp-slime-nav-mode))
MELPA
If you're an Emacs 24 user or you have a recent version of
package.el
you can install elisp-slime-nav
from the
MELPA repository. The version of
elisp-slime-nav
there will always be up-to-date.
Enable elisp-slime-nav
in emacs-lisp-mode
and ielm
by adding
code such as the following to your emacs startup file:
(dolist (hook '(emacs-lisp-mode-hook ielm-mode-hook))
(add-hook hook 'turn-on-elisp-slime-nav-mode))
About
Author: Steve Purcell
Homepage: https://github.com/purcell/elisp-slime-nav
This little library was extracted from the author's full Emacs configuration, which readers might find of interest.