From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Symbol's function definition is void: locating the code Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2016 22:47:20 +0100 Message-ID: <877fil4gbb.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <2016-02-02T16-40-22@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> <87powfgil4.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87fuxbgiah.fsf@wanadoo.es> <2016-02-03T15-16-45@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454536075 4893 80.91.229.3 (3 Feb 2016 21:47:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 21:47:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 03 22:47:47 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aR5H9-0001nu-83 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 22:47:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37885 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aR5H8-00027f-KV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 16:47:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53536) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aR5Gy-00025W-09 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 16:47:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aR5Gu-000644-RE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 16:47:35 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54655) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aR5Gu-00063L-Kj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 16:47:32 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aR5Gs-0001RZ-NL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 22:47:30 +0100 Original-Received: from 1.red-83-38-42.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([83.38.42.1]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 22:47:30 +0100 Original-Received: from ofv by 1.red-83-38-42.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 Feb 2016 22:47:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 1.red-83-38-42.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:L1qMSgzN5P7XIqdCybbtPzKzqgQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108992 Archived-At: Karl Voit writes: > Am I guessing right when the algorithm for locating missing > functions is: > > 1. Web-search with "emacs" and the function name > 2. Search the Emacs source code repository to find it in the most > recent code Suppossing that it is expected to be defined on the Emacs sources, a symbol might be absent from your install either because it is too old (the symbol was introduced on a more recent Emacs version) or too new (the symbol was removed from the Emacs sources). The later case is not very frequent because the Emacs maintainers are very conservative when removing old stuff. > 3. Ask for help at gmane.emacs.help (this mailinglist) This is the slowest resource, yes. Personally I do 2 before 1, using the Changelog files, the NEWS files and the version control history.