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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Where can I find some documents about the architecture of emacs?
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 19:30:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bndwhcny.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150824151757.GA8023@debian>

> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 23:17:57 +0800
> From: Navy Cheng <navych@126.com>
> 
> Hi, I want to learn something about the desgin of emacs and want to find the
> elisp interpretor part of emacs. Now, I know the C part is in ./src, but I
> don't know which file/files is about the interpretor.

All of the C files are parts of the interpreter: they all implement
primitive functions exposed by the interpreter to Lisp.

If you are looking for the core parts of the interpreter, then look at
data.c, eval.c, bytecode.c, and lread.c.  Perhaps also print.c.

> I find that many of the documents in the source tree is about *how to use
> emacs* other than *the architecture of emacs*. Is there any docs I want?

Not really, no.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-24 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-24 15:17 Where can I find some documents about the architecture of emacs? Navy Cheng
2015-08-24 16:30 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.8.1440433896.28410.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-24 18:44   ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-24 20:23 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-08-25 15:15 ` Aurélien Aptel
2015-08-25 20:13   ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]   ` <mailman.92.1440533158.28410.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-26  1:47     ` Dan Espen
2015-09-02 22:03       ` Emanuel Berg
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-08-24 12:17 Navy Cheng

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