12.6.1 Controlling appearance of found definitions

The commands Find Source , Find Source for Dspec and Find Tag retrieve the file containing a definition and place it in a buffer with the relevant definition visible. By default, the start of the definition is in the middle of the Editor window and is highlighted.

The variable editor:*source-found-action* controls the position and highlighting of the found definition. The value should be a list of length 2.

The first element controls the positioning of the definition, as follows:

t

Show it at the top of the editor window.

A non-negative fixnum

Position it that many lines from the top.

nil

Position it at the center of the window.

The second element can be :highlight , meaning highlight the definition, or nil , meaning don't.

For example, to configure the editor so that found definitions are positioned at the top of the window and are not highlighted, do

This variable is set in the file a-dot-lispworks.lisp .