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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: tiefeng wu <icebergwtf@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Learning emacs sources
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:22:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8763dc5g2s.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4314c1f70907281928j44085466p229bab8204ea9ff2@mail.gmail.com> (tiefeng wu's message of "Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:28:39 +0800")

tiefeng wu <icebergwtf@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm interesting to know implementation of emacs.  I downloaded source
> of version 22.3, but honestly, source files are too complicated for
> me.
>
> Any introduce view of emacs structure design or any advise will be
> appreciated.

Reading the source in one go is probably not feasible.  If you are
interested in how one particular part of Emacs works, a good strategy is
to read the relevant part of the Lisp manual, try to formulate a set of
specific questions, then ask this mailing list.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-29  3:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-29  2:28 Learning emacs sources tiefeng wu
2009-07-29  3:22 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2009-07-29  4:08   ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-07-29 10:23     ` tiefeng wu
2009-07-29 20:59     ` Sean Sieger
2009-07-30  2:45       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-07-29 22:06   ` Sundar Vasan
2009-07-29 22:19     ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-30 17:23       ` Sundar Vasan

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