From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestion for C-h f, describe-function Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:29:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: <85slllbpkb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85fyhlbccv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151879408 1099 80.91.229.2 (2 Jul 2006 22:30:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 22:30:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 03 00:30:04 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 1FxARw-00085Z-3Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jul 2006 00:29:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FxARv-0005tQ-Ki for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:29:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FxARi-0005qh-3O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:29:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FxARh-0005pp-EB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:29:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FxARh-0005pY-5l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:29:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FxAf0-00065g-T0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:43:26 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1FxARg-000191-6f; Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:29:40 -0400 Original-To: David Kastrup In-reply-to: <85fyhlbccv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 16:58:56 +0200) 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:56386 Archived-At: The problem is with stuff compiled in another machine or another directory: if some user has an installed Emacs and uses the C source code link, the worst that can happen is that he gets landed in a nonsensical place instead of no place at all, since there is no C source code in the installed Emacs tree. Yes. That's why I suggest trying source-directory first. If the file exists there, that is probably the right file. If not, it can look for the installed Lisp file. Thanks for bringing it up. Another possibility would be to have an option that would embed the source tree info into files that are byte-compiled. I do not understand the idea. level module interface, but it would be nice if one could set one's Emacs up at least manually to have it know just where to find the source trees of stuff. It sounds like you mean having a list instead of source-directory. I guess we could.