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From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
To: Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>,
	help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [External] : M-. vs C-h o
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 09:58:04 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGP6PO+j=G9d-9G=4fgYXDk1N1Qip7C3Xz4iN=Kn=1SUP73tcA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o87hrh6l.fsf@zoho.eu>

On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 9:18 AM Emanuel Berg via Users list for the
GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Drew Adams wrote:
>
> >> mapc is a built-in function in ‘src/fns.c’.
> >
> > That tells you that it's a Lisp function that's "built-in",
> > meaning that it's implemented in C.
>
> A so-called Lisp primitive ...
>
> "Lisp primitives are Lisp functions implemented in C"
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Writing-Emacs-Primitives.html
> (info "(elisp)Writing Emacs Primitives")

Thank you for pointing this out.  I've `rg'ed the local Emacs git
source code repo, and it seems still difficult to pinpoint the
corresponding C source code implementation of DEFUN.

HZ



  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-22  1:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-22  0:28 M-. vs C-h o Hongyi Zhao
2021-10-22  0:33 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-22  1:06 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-22  1:17   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-22  1:58     ` Hongyi Zhao [this message]
2021-10-22  2:31       ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-10-22  2:43         ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-10-22  6:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-22  6:56   ` Hongyi Zhao

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