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John Russell <jorussel@cisco.com> writes:

> I'm not sure if this is the right group for this.  I am picking
> around the emacs C source.  How can I make emacs open a file from the
> internal C code.  e.g. write a function in emacs/src/buffer.c that opens a
> specific file.  Any ideas?  Thanks
> 
> John  

Why would anyone want to do that?

You can much more easily open a file with (find-file path).
There are a lot of initialization (lisp) files where to put such a command.

Otherwise, obviously, you could call Ffind_file from C.

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