From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Masatake YAMATO Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What is emacs architecture ? Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:07:46 +0900 (JST) Organization: Red Hat Japan, Inc. Message-ID: <20100707.150746.549331509773933118.yamato@redhat.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278482865 3217 80.91.229.12 (7 Jul 2010 06:07:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 06:07:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: frenzeee@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 07 08:07:43 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWNnJ-0000Gs-9X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:07:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46108 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OWNnI-0005mS-88 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:07:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36347 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OWNnB-0005mN-VQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:07:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWNnA-0004eD-HV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:07:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:3709) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWNnA-0004e1-5q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:07:32 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.21]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o6767TJ2010153 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 7 Jul 2010 02:07:29 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (beach.nrt.redhat.com [10.64.200.71]) by int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o6767ShC022526; Wed, 7 Jul 2010 02:07:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 10.5.11.21 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:126865 Archived-At: > Hello greets everyone. > > I am a newbie interested in knowing some basic architecture of emacs. I hope > some of you gurus would make it easy for a newbie like me to understand it. > > I would assume that you would have a big mental picture of the program and > then a more detailed picture. It is not possible to manage such a huge > program without a crisp concept. > > If emacs is a meta-recursive lisp interpreter then that serves as pseudo > code for it. > > Does someone have a UML, FSM or any other pictorial representation, or > textual representation of the big picture of emacs ? > > Thanks > > Franz Xe (I've not read yet but)``Beautiful Architecture, 1st Edition'', published from O'Reilly may help you. Ih chapter 11 Jim Blandy wrote about the architecture. of Emacs. http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9780596155780/emacs?reader=pf&readerfullscreen=&readerleftmenu=1 Masatake YAMATO