From: John Russell <jorussel@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: emacs C question
Date: 25 Sep 2003 08:51:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3y8wdxc8k.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87llsdob0x.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com
Pascal Bourguignon <spam@thalassa.informatimago.com> writes:
> John Russell <jorussel@cisco.com> writes:
>
> > I'm not sure if this is the right group for this. I am picking
> > around the emacs C source. How can I make emacs open a file from the
> > internal C code. e.g. write a function in emacs/src/buffer.c that opens a
> > specific file. Any ideas? Thanks
> >
> > John
>
> Why would anyone want to do that?
>
Because I'm trying to implement drag and drop for gtk emacs. I have
gotten the dragging and dropping to work, but now I have to put some
meat in the function that gets called. I'm new to emacs' inner
workings and am a little lost.
> You can much more easily open a file with (find-file path).
> There are a lot of initialization (lisp) files where to put such a command.
>
> Otherwise, obviously, you could call Ffind_file from C.
>
Excellent, I'll check it out.
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-25 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-24 19:00 emacs C question John Russell
2003-09-25 2:30 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2003-09-25 12:51 ` John Russell [this message]
2003-09-25 18:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-09-25 18:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-09-25 20:41 ` John Russell
2003-09-25 21:19 ` Jason Rumney
2003-09-25 21:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-09-25 19:07 ` Jason Rumney
2003-09-25 20:42 ` John Russell
2003-09-25 21:16 ` Jason Rumney
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