Re: Help Using pldoc_process:doc_comment/4

Dear Ian,

On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 00:29:31 -0700
Ian Tegebo <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'd like to process comments for files without worrying about
> compiling them or otherwise creating side-effects that may be
> problematic.  The purpose would be for command completion hints.
> 
> At first, I thought I could use read_clause and/or read_term.  It
> seems that 'pldoc.pl' needs to be loaded beforehand but I can't seem
> to figure out exactly how the state is handled and why I can't just
> run a file through read_clause and then be able to call
> pldoc_process:doc_comment/4.
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated,
> --
> Ian Tegebo

	If what you mean by "process", is SWI's internal processing of comments as
	per when you load a file, you can take a look at 

	xref_source(+Source)
	http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/doc_for?object=xref_source/1
	and 
	http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=prolog_xref

	I am not sure if that the best way to do this, 
	but this is the closest I found when i built the spuds pack few months ago. 
	I suspect you trying to achive something similar.

Hope it helps,

Nicos Angelopoulos
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