From: jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (Janusz S. Bień)
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: reading the C source of Emacs
Date: 13 Jan 2003 06:52:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d6n1ppfj.fsf@mimuw.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: uznq74o1c.fsf@ID-87814.user.dfncis.de
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> wrote:
> I have just taught myself the very first baby steps of C. I want to
> read and understand the C sources of Emacs.
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) wrote:
[...]
> Wow. An admirable goal. I do not understand the C sources of Emacs.
> Amazingly, this has not stopped me from doing modifications here and
> there. (Or was it only here? Yes, I think it was only one -- minor!
> -- modification.)
>
> And I agree with David that it might be useful to do an on-demand
> kind of learning, rather than trying to just grok everything.
I support all of this.
Try to understand better the Emacs functions you use. Start with `C-h
k' or `C-h f', then follow the help links to Lisp and C code. Make
sure you have the proper TAGS file and use `M-.' to navigate inside
the program source.
JSB
--
,
dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW
Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity
http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-13 5:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-11 17:03 reading the C source of Emacs Oliver Scholz
2003-01-11 17:43 ` David Kastrup
2003-01-12 16:31 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-01-11 21:26 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-12 16:37 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-01-12 19:56 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-12 21:45 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-01-12 22:16 ` David Kastrup
2003-01-12 20:59 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2003-01-17 4:55 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-01-17 11:41 ` David Kastrup
2003-01-17 17:09 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-01-13 5:52 ` Janusz S. Bień [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.202.1042437305.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-01-13 6:17 ` Miles Bader
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