8.9 Users of location information

To find location information for definitions made in the running image or recorded in a tags database or a tags file:

• query for a dspec using dspec:find-dspec-locations , or
• query for a name in a given set of namespaces using dspec:find-name-locations

The extent of the search is controlled by the value of the variable dspec:*active-finders* . See the LispWorks Reference Manual for details.

For example, to obtain the locations of the definitions of foo acros all dspec namespaces, call

Another example of the use of dspec:find-name-locations is the LispWorks Editor tool's Find Definitions tab.

8.9.1 Finding definitions in the LispWorks editor

8.9.2 The editor's implicit form parser

8.9.3 Reusing form parsers