From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jay Bingham" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Very basic questions. Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:22:49 GMT Message-ID: <20060915.132318.1570.309155@webmail07.nyc.untd.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158351911 4321 80.91.229.2 (15 Sep 2006 20:25:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:25:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 15 22:25:08 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GOKFG-0007GE-Do for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 22:25:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GOKFF-00047i-He for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:25:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GOKF1-00045y-Qu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:24:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GOKEz-00044r-P7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:24:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GOKEz-00044o-Kc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:24:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.136.20.164] (helo=outbound-mail.nyc.untd.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GOKHE-0004xr-8Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:27:08 -0400 Original-Received: from webmail07.nyc.untd.com (webmail07.nyc.untd.com [10.141.27.147]) by smtpout01.nyc.untd.com with SMTP id AABCSYC8QAYD5ABA for (sender ); Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:23:42 -0700 (PDT) X-UNTD-OriginStamp: 9wMZ3l1+FG1mkmIQefRR9m5aYb8QGUX9V3vlUFiF3OtF5/O/R+PgZwqPjiJ4eWO9 Original-Received: (from b.jc-emacs@netzero.com) by webmail07.nyc.untd.com (jqueuemail) id L2B9EU4Y; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:23:18 PDT Original-Received: from [15.235.153.105] by webmail07.nyc.untd.com with HTTP: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:22:49 GMT X-Originating-IP: [15.235.153.105] Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailer: Webmail Version 4.0 Content-Disposition: inline X-ContentStamp: 8:4:1673224718 X-MAIL-INFO: 13e52064ade0a0ade4e4e0c070c0384d813df00d4da129c129a1a50d84840dd00d64cd X-UNTD-Peer-Info: 10.141.27.147|webmail07.nyc.untd.com|webmail07.nyc.untd.com|b.jc-emacs@netzero.com X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:37397 Archived-At: On Friday, September 15, 2006 at 2:07 PM jronald wrote: > How does .el run? > Is it an explanation language or a compilation one? > I know little about how explanation language works. I am not familiar with the term "explanation language" so I did a = search on the Internet for it and from the one reference that I found = to "explanation language" related to programming I do not believe = that elisp is an explanation language. Elisp can be "compiled" or it = can be run in interpreted mode. > Take "require" for example. How does it know where the > feature list is? Or, how does feature list make itself to be found > by functions? Maybe the problem is what is the memory model about > elisp. "require" and "load" both locate modules by searching the load-path. You can read about all of this in the elisp reference manual, which = if it is not installed on your system in the info directory it can be = found on the web. __ J_) C_)ingham = _____________________________________________________________________ PrivatePhone - FREE telephone number & voicemail. A number so private, you can make it public. http://www.privatephone.com