From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is there any document about Emacs implementation (C source code)? Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:32:11 +0900 Message-ID: <87wspv57sk.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <18332.3360.487815.29898@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201465607 27946 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2008 20:26:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:26:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: brianjiang@gdnt.com.cn, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: dhruva Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 27 21:27:06 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JJE5i-00026n-FR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:26:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJE5H-0004Hd-PO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:26:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJE5D-0004Gh-HD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:26:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJE58-0004ER-NG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:26:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJE58-0004EA-7x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:26:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JJE57-0003MF-VE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:26:22 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEB7E1535BD; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:26:18 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E27E51A29E5; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:32:11 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" (+CVS-20071205) XEmacs Lucid X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:87652 Archived-At: dhruva writes: > Yes, the source code. I go through the same problem everytime i muster > enough courage to implement something in emacs. > A book on crafting an editor has lot of references to emacs but does > not give you the guts of emacs. > There is however an Xemacs internals which might have a lot in common > to emacs, not sure though (written by Ben Wing) http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/21.5/html/internals.html There are many things that are done differently in XEmacs from Emacs. However important things like the DEFUN macro are very similar. Also, I believe that although the implementations are different, the overview of things like the read-eval-print/read-eval-redisplay loop will be useful to any new Emacs developer. > > -dky > > On 1/27/08, brianjiang@gdnt.com.cn wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to do some studying of Emacs C source code? I wonder if there > > are any existing introduction documents about the Emacs internal > > implementation? > > > > Thanks, > > Brian > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emacs-devel mailing list > > Emacs-devel@gnu.org > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel > > > > -- > Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com > > Contents reflect my personal views only! > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-devel mailing list > Emacs-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel