From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Install C source code for for debugging help
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 23:03:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13994856-550b-f051-c39d-4357ddb2e102@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83wodtiyzb.fsf@gnu.org>
On 9/27/19 9:40 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> Both you and my (and others on
>>> this list) have the sources installed,
>> Not really. I am typing this email on a laptop that has Emacs installed,
>> but there are no C sources in sight because Ubuntu doesn't supply them
>> as part of Emacs.
> So if I refer to something in the sources, or send a C-level patch,
> you cannot do anything useful with that information?
It depends on which version of Emacs you were referring to.Typically
when you and I interact, it's about Emacs master, and that's different
from what Ubuntu ships. So I wouldn't expect my laptop Emacs to match
your email exactly; in order to do something useful and reliable with
your email I'd need to put a copy of Emacs master on my laptop, or use
my laptop to log into a computer that already has a copy of Emacs master
(the latter is what I typically do).
However, if we were talking about Emacs 1:26.1+1-3.2ubuntu2 (which is
the latest version on stable Ubuntu, and is what I run on my laptop),
then I'd expect my Emacs C-h f help buttons to match our conversation.
Unfortunately, this does not currently work for C-language functions.
Although it's unlikely that you and I would discuss this particular
Emacs version as you don't use Ubuntu, it's quite possible I'd discuss
this Emacs version with other Ubuntu users and it'd help such
discussions if C-h f worked for us.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-28 4:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-26 20:37 Install C source code for for debugging help Paul Eggert
2019-09-27 5:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 6:13 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-27 7:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 13:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-27 13:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-27 13:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 13:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-27 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 14:24 ` Paul Eggert
2019-09-27 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-28 4:03 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2019-09-27 17:04 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-09-27 22:45 ` Fu Yuan
2019-09-28 0:09 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-09-28 2:14 ` Michael Rohleder
2019-09-27 15:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-09-28 1:32 ` Richard Stallman
2019-09-28 2:06 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-09-27 15:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-27 15:47 ` David Ringo
2019-09-27 8:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-09-27 9:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 11:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-09-27 12:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 13:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-09-27 13:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-09-28 18:19 Angelo Graziosi
2019-09-29 6:56 ` Paul Eggert
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