Is there an emacs c code document ?

Is there an emacs c code document ?

[Kyle M. Lee]

Hi all,
I am very interested in emacs internal implementation, especially the c
code. And I have gotten the cvs emacs 23 code. I googled with "emacs
internal", found nothing valuable. So I asked this question, are there
some nice documents or guide about the emacs internal implementation ?

Maybe someone would tell me, the code is the real document.:) The emacs
code is not doxygen-like. So I am reading code with emacs + ECB.

Any comments are welcome.

Re: Is there an emacs c code document ?

[Jason Rumney]

Kyle M. Lee wrote:
> So I asked this question, are there
> some nice documents or guide about the emacs internal implementation ?
>   

In addition to the code itself, there are a few documents in
admin/notes. I thought there was something about garbage collection
there, but it must be somewhere else.

Is there an emacs c code document ?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Kyle M. Lee writes:

 > Hi all,
 > I am very interested in emacs internal implementation, especially the c
 > code. And I have gotten the cvs emacs 23 code. I googled with "emacs
 > internal", found nothing valuable. So I asked this question, are there
 > some nice documents or guide about the emacs internal implementation ?

The XEmacs Internals Manual
http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/21.5/html/internals.html
may be of some use for general coding conventions and techniques.  The
Mule code is quite different, as are the internal console APIs.  But
the coding conventions for the Lisp engine are pretty similar.

Re: Is there an emacs c code document ?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Hi all, I am very interested in emacs internal implementation,
>> especially the c code. And I have gotten the cvs emacs 23
>> code. I googled with "emacs internal", found nothing valuable. So
>> I asked this question, are there some nice documents or guide about
>> the emacs internal implementation ?

> The XEmacs Internals Manual
> http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/21.5/html/internals.html may be of
> some use for general coding conventions and techniques.  The Mule code
> is quite different, as are the internal console APIs.  But the coding
> conventions for the Lisp engine are pretty similar.

There is also the "the craft of text editing" book
(http://www.finseth.com/craft/), which is very old and doesn't describe
Emacs's code, but can still be relevant in giving an idea of the
general organization.

And if you have detailed questions, this mailing list may answer them,
of course.


        Stefan

Re: Is there an emacs c code document ?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:01:01 +0800
> From: "Kyle M. Lee" <mail2kyle@gmail.com>
> 
> I am very interested in emacs internal implementation, especially the c
> code. And I have gotten the cvs emacs 23 code. I googled with "emacs
> internal", found nothing valuable. So I asked this question, are there
> some nice documents or guide about the emacs internal implementation ?

In addition to all the good advice others gave you, I'd like to
mention the node "GNU Emacs Internals" in the ELisp manual.  While it
doesn't really describe the C code, it does give you some good
background about how the fundamental Emacs objects work.

Re: Is there an emacs c code document ?

[Kyle M. Lee]

Stefan Monnier 写道:
> There is also the "the craft of text editing" book
> (http://www.finseth.com/craft/), which is very old and doesn't describe
> Emacs's code, but can still be relevant in giving an idea of the
> general organization.
>
Nice book. I will read it and the XEmacs Internal document that Stephen
gave. Thanks.


> And if you have detailed questions, this mailing list may answer them,
> of course.
:) Thanks in advance.

Re: Is there an emacs c code document ?

[Kyle M. Lee]

Eli Zaretskii 写道:
> In addition to all the good advice others gave you, I'd like to
> mention the node "GNU Emacs Internals" in the ELisp manual.  While it
> doesn't really describe the C code, it does give you some good
> background about how the fundamental Emacs objects work.
Thanks, Eli. That's what I want too.
The info of emacs likes forest. :)