* Fortran editing helpers for Emacs ** Overview You write (or work on) large, modern fortran code bases. These make heavy use of function overloading and generic interfaces. Your brain is too small to remember what all the specialisers are called. Therefore, your editor should help you. This is an attempt to do this for Emacs. f90-interface-browser.el is a (simple-minded) parser of fortran that understands a little about generic interfaces and derived types. ** External functions - =f90-parse-interfaces-in-dir= :: Parse all the fortran files in a directory - =f90-parse-all-interfaces= :: Parse all the fortran files in a directory and recursively in its subdirectories - =f90-browse-interface-specialisers= :: Pop up a buffer showing all the specialisers for a particular generic interface (prompted for with completion) - =f90-find-tag-interface= :: On a procedure call, show a list of the interfaces that match the (possibly typed) argument list. If no interface is found, this falls back to =find-tag=. - =f90-list-in-scope-vars= :: List all variables in local scope. This just goes to the top of the current procedure and collects named variables, so it doesn't work with module or global scope variables or local procedures. - =f90-show-type-definition= :: Pop up a buffer showing a derived type definition. ** Customisable variables - =f90-file-extensions= :: A list of extensions that the parser will use to decide if a file is a fortran file. ** Details and caveats The parser assumes you write fortran in the style espoused in Metcalf, Reid and Cohen. Particularly, variable declarations use a double colon to separate the type from the name list. Here's an example of a derived type definition: #+BEGIN_SRC f90 type foo real, allocatable, dimension(:) :: a integer, pointer :: b, c(:) type(bar) :: d end type foo #+END_SRC Here's a subroutine declaration: #+BEGIN_SRC f90 subroutine foo(a, b) integer, intent(in) :: a real, intent(inout), dimension(:,:) :: b ... end subroutine foo #+END_SRC Local procedures whose names conflict with global ones will likely confuse the parser. For example: #+BEGIN_SRC f90 subroutine foo(a, b) ... end subroutine foo subroutine bar(a, b) ... call subroutine foo ... contains subroutine foo ... end subroutine foo end subroutine bar #+END_SRC Also not handled are overloaded operators, scalar precision modifiers, like =integer(kind=c_int)=, for which the precision is just ignored, and many other of the hairier aspects of the fortran language.