From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: source-directory, installed Emacs, and C source Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 19:04:20 +0300 Message-ID: <834jigknwb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <875y2wrt0q.fsf@catern.com> <875y2wovsf.fsf@ledu-giraud.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21077"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: sbaugh@catern.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Manuel Giraud Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 24 18:05:31 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qvJuM-0005Ew-V7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2023 18:05:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qvJtj-0008Ah-1L; Tue, 24 Oct 2023 12:04:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qvJtB-0007od-Uh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2023 12:04:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qvJtA-0004c9-VS; Tue, 24 Oct 2023 12:04:16 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=613/vDHq/hqyo58HIIS6pYUDoFDmnkXQPNuzMMj+438=; b=ZiSQN8fRWD0qu55wJy2w WrLXtlUkz4ITyuugiQ83vCHJusELZk0qfMLM2bSq1RmuKnRoiIuVyMX2fFX5HTTcf0LJPPkdbJkmz vKWHblarqwlpDFxXJeZWhzZrJYlSb0+4mDaNvc34ClCrY+eItJeE9M4+cIeYqlPBy1MI0O2PfDL7D RFn37XrYGv+a6r5Ptqad80WdRPduILrBI6IxcU0zyiWi5k0dB7LvEiR8hNU5cUmHQy3aTPiWdAuZ8 +V4VUpHWhgbaffOPHjN7prmYjdILyo1UzrrLlBkLV2oEhug2SCB+hWL43EP8ycpQVCHiXClnxanES P9QqyoPS7TYA9A==; In-Reply-To: <875y2wovsf.fsf@ledu-giraud.fr> (emacs-devel@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:311807 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 18:00:16 +0200 > From: Manuel Giraud via "Emacs development discussions." > > - Jumping to a newer function definition is a problem. > > > > So we shouldn't be doing it for C. > > I think it is already the case for « normal » Emacs users. If you > install Emacs for your distribution's package, correct me if I'm wrong, > but you won't be able to jump to C definitions. So this option is > already done for those users. > > Now for « advanced » users (who install from sources), jumping to newer > C function definition might be a problem but being knowledgeable user, > he should know that this could be the case. AFAIK, this is also true if the user installs the source distribution (all distros offer that as an optional download).