[comp.emacs] Database routines in GNU-Lisp

harbo@nac.dec.com (Peter Harbo) (11/20/86)

When I used Gosling Emacs I created glossaries with the put-database-entry
and fetch-database-entry primitives of Mock Lisp.  These in turn called the
dbm(3) routines.  I notice that there doesn't seem to be any corresponding
routines in GNU-Emacs for this.  Has anyone done anything in GNU-Lisp to
provide equivalent functions?

I also wonder if anyone has written anything like describe-word-in-buffer,
which in Gosmacs could be used to print a single line in the minibuffer giving
e.g. function argument types for the function name at "point" (where the 
cursor is).

Peter Harbo