On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 04:16:25PM +0100, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> 
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> > Part of the idea is that, if you're not compiling Emacs yourself,
> > accessing the C source code is much less useful.
> 
> Like for every general rule, there are counter examples. I, for example,
> cannot build Emacs under MS Windows, I'm bound to
> distributions. Nevertheless, I could use the C sources when debugging
> there, in order to read them.

I concur: one of Emacs's strong points is that it readily gives you
easy access to its innards (the "study" part in the four freedoms,
after all :-)

Cheers
-- t