From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: missing src/ directory for eval.c Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 20:51:09 +0000 Message-ID: <87zhr26oci.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="195300"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 11 21:51:36 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gtIYB-000ohx-68 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 21:51:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56092 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtIYA-0006nu-7G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:51:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53464) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtIXs-0006nZ-0U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:51:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtIXr-0006UT-AI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:51:15 -0500 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp16.blacknight.com ([46.22.139.233]:49018) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtIXr-0006TL-4u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:51:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail01.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.10]) by outbound-smtp16.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 584CD1C1C07 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2019 20:51:11 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: (qmail 6975 invoked from network); 11 Feb 2019 20:51:11 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[93.107.148.183]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 11 Feb 2019 20:51:11 -0000 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:13:22 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 46.22.139.233 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:119354 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> Unlike the Lisp files, the C files are not targeted and placed outside of >> the source distribution by `make install`. It seems. > > Indeed, the C source files are not expected to be present in an > Emacs installation. They're only expected to be present on the machine > where Emacs was compiled. > > Part of the idea is that, if you're not compiling Emacs yourself, > accessing the C source code is much less useful. I think it would be useful if the help buffer explained this. E.g. "forward-char is an interactive built-in function in `C source code'. C-source codes isn't usually available unless Emacs was installed from source." BR, Robert Thorpe