From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: reading the C source of Emacs Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 22:26:24 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <847kdbml8f.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042320626 23801 80.91.224.249 (11 Jan 2003 21:30:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 21:30:26 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18XTCw-0006Bi-00 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 22:30:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18XTDN-0006xH-09 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 16:30:49 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd9e1eec0.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e1eec0.dip.t-dialin.net (217.225.238.192) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1042320411 19005253 217.225.238.192 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090011 (Oort Gnus v0.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZlRaV36E1PGW8I8iBYwhDhvcDD0= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108855 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5384 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5384 Oliver Scholz writes: > I have just taught myself the very first baby steps of C. I want to > read and understand the C sources of Emacs. Wow. An admirable goal. I do not understand the C sources of Emacs. Amazingly, this has not stopped me from doing modifications here and there. (Or was it only here? Yes, I think it was only one -- minor! -- modification.) And I agree with David that it might be useful to do an on-demand kind of learning, rather than trying to just grok everything. Is there anything that you had in mind modifying in the long term? Maybe you could turn your plan around: start with the modification that you wanted to postpone until you understood. -- Ambibibentists unite!