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Subject: Re: where is a function defined
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XEmacs has "find-function".  I've forgotten if Emacs has it.  It will
do the path searching for you.

zghuang@bloombergREMOVETHISPART.net (Z. Huang) writes:

>   load-path seems to be not I wanted. I have to go to each of the directories
> to find a symbol that I need. Is there any simpler way to find the definition
> of a function?

-- 
Alan Wehmann
wehmann@fnal.gov