From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: find-function-C-source-directory Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 11:22:32 +0200 Message-ID: <44796BD8.1030304@student.lu.se> References: <4478C990.1090300@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1148808173 25529 80.91.229.2 (28 May 2006 09:22:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 09:22:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 28 11:22:51 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FkHU2-0008W3-G4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 May 2006 11:22:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FkHU1-0004UW-Pw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 May 2006 05:22:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FkHTp-0004SQ-Kn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 May 2006 05:22:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FkHTm-0004Pg-S7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 May 2006 05:22:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FkHTm-0004PV-O3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 May 2006 05:22:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.98] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FkHZ5-0008H8-8V; Sun, 28 May 2006 05:28:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.072.1) id 446E043B001CC776; Sun, 28 May 2006 11:22:32 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:55374 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 23:50:08 +0200 >> From: Lennart Borgman >> >> It is quite hard for those downloading prebuilt binaries of Emacs to >> view the C sources. >> > > Could you elaborate a bit: what makes it hard? > > I assume you are talking about users that do have the sources on their > machine, so the only problem is that the source directory is not what > is recorded in the binary. If so, the only problem I know of is that > they need to type in the directory where they have the sources, only > once per session, when Emacs prompts for it. > Yes, that is correct. The problem is how they should find out that. Where is that information? I think that it should be there right when they try to access the C sources from within help. And possibly somewhere in the manual too. If find-function-C-source-directory is nil then the user is prompted for the directory where the sources are. I think that is good, but not in accordance with the doc string for this var. But it is quite hard to find out that it is this variable you should set if you want it Emacs to remember where the sources are. And if you set it to something wrong then perhaps a hint about the var should be good?