From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Where can I find some documents about the architecture of emacs? Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 20:44:20 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87mvxg5xx7.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <20150824151757.GA8023@debian> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440441931 2207 80.91.229.3 (24 Aug 2015 18:45:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:45:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 24 20:45:27 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTwkI-0007vl-EM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 20:45:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56079 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTwkH-0002MR-R4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:45:25 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Trace: individual.net d1b5xY5xY5SCik9OpzTYTgvDj9lvlBbJfR+1Bk11+Bj1hTcJDt Cancel-Lock: sha1:YTkyNThlNDMxYjQwNjE0ZTQxYmJkNWZjMTU5ZTY4YzJkMjliMjE3Mw== sha1:cnfUnMihPcEmlcFVp49WWXIfGhw= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:214522 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106805 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 23:17:57 +0800 >> From: Navy Cheng >> >> 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. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ “The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk