From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: "Kyle M. Lee" <mail2kyle@gmail.com>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Is there an emacs c code document ?
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:10:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd4p1wsz6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87myo6dovy.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:56:33 +0900")
>> Hi all, I am very interested in emacs internal implementation,
>> especially the c code. And I have gotten the cvs emacs 23
>> code. I googled with "emacs internal", found nothing valuable. So
>> I asked this question, are there some nice documents or guide about
>> the emacs internal implementation ?
> The XEmacs Internals Manual
> http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/21.5/html/internals.html may be of
> some use for general coding conventions and techniques. The Mule code
> is quite different, as are the internal console APIs. But the coding
> conventions for the Lisp engine are pretty similar.
There is also the "the craft of text editing" book
(http://www.finseth.com/craft/), which is very old and doesn't describe
Emacs's code, but can still be relevant in giving an idea of the
general organization.
And if you have detailed questions, this mailing list may answer them,
of course.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-07 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-07 5:01 Is there an emacs c code document ? Kyle M. Lee
2008-04-07 7:33 ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-07 8:56 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-04-07 16:10 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2008-04-08 1:50 ` Kyle M. Lee
2008-04-07 19:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-08 2:31 ` Kyle M. Lee
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