From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Fren Zeee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Comment on Emacs Lisp Introduction Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:33:31 -0700 Message-ID: References: <877hkc2i7f.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280604823 11299 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2010 19:33:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:33:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 31 21:33:41 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OfHoS-0004XJ-UD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:33:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56509 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OfHoS-00082V-AK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:33:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43301 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OfHoL-0007zb-Pq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:33:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OfHoK-0005GX-Jf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:33:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-iw0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:52984) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OfHoK-0005GR-E5; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:33:32 -0400 Original-Received: by iwn2 with SMTP id 2so3256027iwn.0 for ; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:33:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=N6nyMPU7gckeLKvnzLQIU6xh2/aKxlwIpM7g9ccYIQ0=; b=d+eh2e8R/w+UTSdHOwd743ToLp7P5DgjIMHO1p1hmGxojR4/4j9VVwAnbEY+S7MFU6 OuQ7fH0V6WVVW3ga2z6WR09bVTW5rzdzZq8dIuXTdqipVhlRa2AlqkNtk5QqhYSAIMS2 bffshyuXT0hn23tQA+oahA2K2gfTDiv3zKmB0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=MvR9bXZPLYoD2uq/8w9BmNYUk2ovZxaC7TzS2LIfg5gHHZgr/7Cs5hEl5MLx5+eJzs muj3L1lfNac/2OBu2lvz62w23MaTUT5muoKhNDetk6QyfV0JQonhm082orqN3YM3K3Xd v1AkUqMu1Dq/O+5GlV5nBFlqem7I75l+3UHLk= Original-Received: by 10.231.60.7 with SMTP id n7mr4204538ibh.60.1280604811681; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:33:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.231.199.80 with HTTP; Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:33:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <877hkc2i7f.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:128064 Archived-At: On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 1:01 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Fren Zeee writes: > >> Robert, does your intro book explain things like how to get the full >> definition of a function like for example >> >> next-line which is a down arrow >> >> (symbol-function 'next-line) >> #[(arg) " \203& [next-line-add-newlines arg abbrev-mode 1 nil " >> " line-move (line-move arg) ((... ...))] 3 1337315 "p"] >> >> I could not figure out from online doc and apropos how to do it. > > Huh? > > C-h f next-line RET gives the online doc, and the very first line is > > next-line is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple.el'. > > where the string `simple.el' is a hyperlink leading to the definition of > next-line in simple.el. =A0So I don't understand what problem you > encountered using the online documentation. =A0You can also use > M-x find-function RET next-line RET > to get to the source. > > What is your problem? David, My problem is that I want to see the function definition of next-lin= e.