* Looking up the source of a builtin function (subroutine)
@ 2008-11-03 13:47 Nordlöw
2008-11-03 15:59 ` Paul R
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From: Nordlöw @ 2008-11-03 13:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
How do I lookup the C source file for a builtin function (sub-routine)
like symbol-file() does for emacs lisp?
/Nordlöw
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* Re: Looking up the source of a builtin function (subroutine)
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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From: Paul R @ 2008-11-03 15:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Nordlöw; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
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
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* Re: Looking up the source of a builtin function (subroutine)
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@ 2008-11-03 16:03 ` Nordlöw
2008-11-03 16:25 ` Joost Diepenmaat
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From: Nordlöw @ 2008-11-03 16:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
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?
/Nordlöw
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* Re: Looking up the source of a builtin function (subroutine)
2008-11-03 16:03 ` Nordlöw
@ 2008-11-03 16:25 ` Joost Diepenmaat
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From: Joost Diepenmaat @ 2008-11-03 16:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
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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