From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>,
dgutov@yandex.ru
Subject: Re: Trunk still not open
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 13:56:56 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9cpl8x3.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ha6xc3al.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii writes:
> Yes. Its readers want to know how to write their program, not how
> Emacs was designed and why. The latter is (or should be) subject for
> a separate document, as yet unwritten (AFAIK).
To the extent that you want lower-level details from the horse's
mouth, somebody will probably have to interview Richard (general
Emacs), Gerd (redisplay), and Ken'ichi (MULE), among others (those are
the areas where I know a particular person did a lot of design by
themselves, but I don't have comprehensive knowledge of Emacs) but
Richard's paper
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html
is a pretty good start on the "whys" and many of the higher-level
"hows" of Emacs design. Also
http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/21.5/html/internals.html
is in great part relevant, with many lower-level details that are
applicable to Emacs as well. It is quite incomplete and there are
piles of junk that are basically old block comments mover there from
the source, but I still find it useful when I read Emacs C code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-17 4:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 128+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-27 5:00 Trunk still not open Stefan Monnier
2014-03-13 20:55 ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-14 7:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-14 9:29 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-14 9:35 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-14 9:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-14 10:02 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-14 10:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-14 10:40 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-14 11:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-14 9:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-14 9:55 ` Bastien
2014-03-14 15:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-14 11:42 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-03-15 9:13 ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-14 12:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-03-14 13:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-03-14 19:35 ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-18 20:01 ` joakim
2014-03-19 6:29 ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-19 16:43 ` Stefan
2014-03-14 14:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-14 14:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-03-14 15:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-15 6:22 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-03-15 9:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-16 0:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-03-16 3:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-14 15:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-15 6:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-03-17 4:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-14 19:31 ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-14 20:08 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-03-16 1:00 ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-16 2:30 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-03-15 1:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-15 2:09 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-03-15 8:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-15 10:52 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-15 11:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-15 11:28 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-16 1:08 ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-16 2:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-16 10:02 ` martin rudalics
2014-03-17 16:26 ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-17 17:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-17 17:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-17 17:31 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-18 15:54 ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-18 17:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-18 17:21 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-18 17:27 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-19 4:25 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-17 4:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-17 12:38 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-17 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-18 6:00 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-18 7:51 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-18 12:10 ` John Yates
2014-03-18 12:20 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-18 12:52 ` John Yates
2014-03-18 13:01 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-18 10:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-18 16:13 ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-18 16:16 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-18 17:25 ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-18 17:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-18 17:51 ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-16 0:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-03-16 3:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-16 5:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-03-16 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-16 16:36 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-03-16 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-15 10:02 ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-15 10:19 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-15 11:01 ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-15 11:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-17 14:32 ` Stefan
2014-03-17 15:13 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-03-17 16:13 ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-17 16:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-17 16:13 ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-17 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-17 16:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-15 3:22 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-03-15 7:10 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-03-15 9:02 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-15 8:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-16 0:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-03-16 1:27 ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-16 5:31 ` Dmitry Gutov
2014-03-16 11:26 ` Nicolas Richard
2014-03-16 3:57 ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-16 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-16 19:17 ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-16 20:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-17 4:56 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2014-03-19 7:57 ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-19 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-19 23:21 ` Jambunathan K
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-03-17 14:47 Barry OReilly
2014-03-18 17:55 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-18 19:05 ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-18 19:24 ` Juanma Barranquero
2014-03-18 19:29 ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-18 19:47 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-18 19:57 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-19 15:17 ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-19 6:20 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-19 7:24 ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-19 15:22 ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-19 14:54 Alexander Poslavsky
2014-03-19 15:18 ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-19 15:21 ` Alexander Poslavsky
2014-03-19 15:51 ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-19 16:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-03-19 20:38 ` Jambunathan K
2014-03-19 15:57 ` Bastien
2014-03-19 15:59 ` Bastien
2014-03-19 16:13 ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-19 17:15 ` Nicolas Richard
2014-03-19 23:38 ` Bastien
2014-03-19 18:45 ` Stefan
2014-03-19 20:01 ` Glenn Morris
2014-03-20 1:22 ` Stefan
2014-03-19 21:21 ` Paul Eggert
2014-03-20 1:24 ` Stefan
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