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From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: what is the point of point-min?
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 22:05:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84n0dtfsz3.fsf@slowfox.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3r835wrec.fsf@defun.localdomain

Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:

> If they were Lisp functions I would have just read the source.  But
>
> * I hate reading C.

Well, reading Emacs C code is very unlike reading other C code, so
please do give it a try.

> * It's much more cumbersome to find the function definition for
>   built-in functions, i.e. there's no handy hyperlink to the source
>   when doing `C-h f' like there is for Lisp functions.

I just "make tags" in the Emacs source directory and then use M-. to
find such stuff.  Not quite as convenient as M-x find-function RET,
but just a little bit worse.
-- 
Two cafe au lait please, but without milk.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-28 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E19s71c-0005cn-KT@monty-python.gnu.org>
2003-08-27 23:40 ` what is the point of point-min? Joe Corneli
     [not found] ` <mailman.1156.1062027752.29551.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-08-28  0:23   ` Jesper Harder
2003-08-28 16:17   ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-08-28 17:05     ` Jesper Harder
2003-08-28 17:59       ` Barry Margolin
2003-08-28 18:47         ` Jesper Harder
2003-08-28 20:05           ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2003-08-28 21:11             ` Greg Hill
2003-08-29 11:30               ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-08-28 22:11             ` Johan Bockgård
     [not found]             ` <mailman.1207.1062105211.29551.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-08-29  7:21               ` Oliver Scholz
2003-08-29 11:32                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-08-29 10:41               ` Kai Großjohann
2003-08-29  7:33             ` Oliver Scholz
2003-08-29 12:44           ` Rob Thorpe
2003-08-30  2:54             ` Jesper Harder
2003-09-01 13:41               ` Rob Thorpe
2003-09-07  6:50             ` Jim Janney
2003-09-07 17:28               ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-08-28 18:34       ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found]       ` <m3znhttxic.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
2003-08-28 20:39         ` Jesper Harder
     [not found]           ` <m31xv431u6.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
2003-08-30  3:32             ` Jesper Harder
     [not found]               ` <m3ekz2idao.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
2003-08-31 10:58                 ` Unknown
2003-09-01 17:04                 ` Stefan Monnier

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