From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Comment on Emacs Lisp Introduction Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:14:39 +0200 Message-ID: <87aap7flxs.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <877hkc2i7f.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280607303 18393 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2010 20:15:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:15:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Fren Zeee To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 31 22:15:02 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 1OfIST-0003pm-Kd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:15:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36411 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OfIST-0002z2-1Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:15:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50695 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OfISO-0002yd-14 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:14:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OfISM-0003GT-75 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:14:55 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:32890) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OfISL-0003FL-Uh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:14:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OfISG-0003kK-B8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:14:48 +0200 Original-Received: from 83.42.13.171 ([83.42.13.171]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:14:48 +0200 Original-Received: from ofv by 83.42.13.171 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:14:48 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.42.13.171 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:STBVCZKi+vzQCsuGFZKAoUZBC8I= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:128072 Archived-At: Fren Zeee writes: >> David, My problem is that I want to see the function definition of >> next-line. >> > ie lisp code without having to search, find which file has it and then > open it. Emacs, the self-documenting text editor. You know that whatever C-h f is, it knows what you want to know, so you just need to investigate "C-h f". For that you can do "C-h k C-h f" for seeing help about the function invoked with "C-h f", which is describe-function. You use the hyperlink from the Help window to jump to the function definition. Then you read the source code a bit or do a quick text search to learn that what you probably want is find-lisp-object-file-name What's find-lisp-object-file-name? Well, C-h f find-lisp-object-file-name RET will tell you... and so on. > On some platforms, I dont have the source and its an unnecessary > interruption in the work to go and make the detour to search for it. Sorry, I don't understand this. How do you expect seeing the function definition without having the source code?