From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex =?utf-8?Q?Benn=C3=A9e?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: searching elisp on debian/ubuntu Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 13:22:35 +0100 Message-ID: References: <0217b185-f626-4d6c-afdb-38239b35f4d5@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1382703775 31950 80.91.229.3 (25 Oct 2013 12:22:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:22:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Rustom Mody Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 25 14:22:59 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VZgPq-0006nn-N9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:22:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59021 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZgPq-0005Po-9O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 08:22:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41392) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZgPa-0005Ph-Ip for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 08:22:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZgPU-0001or-KB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 08:22:42 -0400 Original-Received: from static.88-198-71-155.clients.your-server.de ([88.198.71.155]:60165 helo=socrates.bennee.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZgPU-0001ok-Do for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 08:22:36 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=sloy) by socrates.bennee.com with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VZgRO-0001I0-FO; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:24:34 +0200 User-agent: mu4e 0.9.9.6pre2; emacs 24.3.1 In-reply-to: <0217b185-f626-4d6c-afdb-38239b35f4d5@googlegroups.com> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: kernel-hacker@bennee.com X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on socrates.bennee.com); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 88.198.71.155 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94209 Archived-At: rustompmody@gmail.com writes: > On Friday, October 25, 2013 2:40:52 PM UTC+5:30, Alex Bennée wrote: >> Rustom Mody wrote: >> >> > [This is more about debian ubuntu than emacs] >> > >> > When looking for something in elisp on debian/ubuntu there is the >> > nuisance that the files are gzipped. So Ive to do things like >> >> What sort of things are you looking for? > > eg Figure out how the function 'make-translation-table' is used in elisp > etc etc C-h f make-translation-table TAB (onto the highlighted mule.el) RET (goes to the definition in mule.el.gz) >> > find /usr/share/emacs/23.4/lisp *.gz|xargs zgrep >> I agree finding all places where this call is made is more tricky however. It would probably be easier just to have a checkout of the main emacs src code for you to grep through? -- Alex Bennée