From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Where can I find some documents about the architecture of emacs?
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 20:44:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvxg5xx7.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.8.1440433896.28410.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 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.
Alternatively or additionnaly, you might want to have a look at the byte
compiler and virtual machine.
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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
[not found] ` <mailman.8.1440433896.28410.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-24 18:44 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
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
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2015-08-24 12:17 Navy Cheng
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