From: Joost Diepenmaat <joost@zeekat.nl>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Looking up the source of a builtin function (subroutine)
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:25:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87prlcpyi2.fsf@zeekat.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: e6d0a722-d2ef-467c-ba8e-103e4ee02cff@d36g2000prf.googlegroups.com
Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com> writes:
> On 3 Nov, 16:59, Paul R <paul.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Nordlöw> How do I lookup the C source file for a builtin function
>> Nordlöw> (sub-routine) like symbol-file() does for emacs lisp?
>>
>> I assume you want to do so interactively, then :
>>
>> C-h f your-function-name RET
>>
>> You will need to have emacs sources installed, obviously. If you did not
>> build emacs from source, you probably have to find a package that
>> provides them.
>>
>> --
>> Paul
>
> How do I do it from emacs lisp code?
Looking at the source for describe-function and describe-function-1:
(find-lisp-object-file-name 'car (symbol-function 'car))
replace 'car with any symbol denoting a function
--
Joost Diepenmaat | blog: http://joost.zeekat.nl/ | work: http://zeekat.nl/
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2008-11-03 13:47 Looking up the source of a builtin function (subroutine) Nordlöw
2008-11-03 15:59 ` Paul R
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2008-11-03 16:03 ` Nordlöw
2008-11-03 16:25 ` Joost Diepenmaat [this message]
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