From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "jronald" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Very basic questions. Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 04:50:17 +0800 Organization: Bentium Ltd. (CN99) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158356514 18955 80.91.229.2 (15 Sep 2006 21:41:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 21:41:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 15 23:41:52 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GOLRS-0006GR-Qx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 23:41:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GOLRS-0002oU-CB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:41:46 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newsgate.cuhk.edu.hk!news.szu.edu.cn!news.cn99.com!news.yaako.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 40 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 58.34.190.132 Original-X-Trace: news.yaako.com 1158353422 16130 58.34.190.132 (15 Sep 2006 20:50:22 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.yaako.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:50:22 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:141778 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:37400 Archived-At: Then manual doesn't have any description at this level. "Jay Bingham" 写入消息新闻:mailman.6992.1158351893.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org... On Friday, September 15, 2006 at 2:07 PM jronald wrote: > How does .el run? > Is it an explanation language or a compilation one? > I know little about how explanation language works. I am not familiar with the term "explanation language" so I did a search on the Internet for it and from the one reference that I found to "explanation language" related to programming I do not believe that elisp is an explanation language. Elisp can be "compiled" or it can be run in interpreted mode. > Take "require" for example. How does it know where the > feature list is? Or, how does feature list make itself to be found > by functions? Maybe the problem is what is the memory model about > elisp. "require" and "load" both locate modules by searching the load-path. You can read about all of this in the elisp reference manual, which if it is not installed on your system in the info directory it can be found on the web. __ J_) C_)ingham _____________________________________________________________________ PrivatePhone - FREE telephone number & voicemail. A number so private, you can make it public. http://www.privatephone.com