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In <mailman.617.1173299866.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net> writes:

>>>>>> "kj" == kj  <socyl@987jk.com.invalid> writes:

>    kj> Is there an easy way to tell Emacs to visit some file in its
>    kj> load path (without, of course, having to tell it specifically
>    kj> where to look)?

>In CVS Emacs, C-x F (find-function) does exactly what you want.

Well, not exactly (it requires that I know the name of some function
in the file of interest), but certainly good enough.  Thanks!

kj

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