From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: getting the source finding button in c-h f help buffers to work Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 20:16:20 +0100 Message-ID: <87si0xoi2j.fsf@debian.uxu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455304629 12016 80.91.229.3 (12 Feb 2016 19:17:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:17:09 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 12 20:16:59 2016 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 1aUJD5-0005rO-5k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 20:16:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35575 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUJD4-0004Pa-57 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:16:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43047) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUJCs-0004PN-9k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:16:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUJCp-0000IS-1l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:16:42 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36426) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUJCo-0000IO-Qk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:16:38 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aUJCm-0005Zi-Ju for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 20:16:36 +0100 Original-Received: from nl106-137-227.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 20:16:36 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-227.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 20:16:36 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-227.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:byTj2wUhm7KNoJhkWrLcpjnHkkg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:109149 Archived-At: Samuel Wales writes: > in a recent version of emacs, perhaps a recent emacs > 24 minor version, it seems that c-h f source links > no longer work if you keep your byte-compiled files > in a separate directory from the source files. This is especially frustrating after setting up an ambitious Makefile with all the matches and rules to get the compiled stuff and the source stuff in different directories, only to discover this neat organization of things is what actually breaks the access! But unlike you I didn't know this ever to work - and how can it work? For it to work, you must tell Emacs where the source is. Perhaps you can tell Emacs some principle where to look - like "the same directory as the compiled stuff only in a directory called src/ and not with the .elc extention but .el" - then, you have to stick to that in you Makefiles, of course. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573