From: "Herbert Euler" <herberteuler@hotmail.com>
To: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: A suggestion...
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 12:31:45 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BAY143-F194CDB2E5C45D8A9132E7FDA330@phx.gbl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86mz07yakt.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
>When doing something like C-h f for a function, one gets displayed a
>hyperlink to the corresponding source file.
>
>Now there is not rarely the situation that one actually wants not to
>go to the Elisp file in load-path, but rather the actual source file.
>
>It happens that .elc files have a header similar to the following:
>
>;ELC.
>;;; Compiled by dak@lola.quinscape.zz on Mon May 14 12:09:35 2007
>;;; from file /rep/emacs/lisp/gnus/mml2015.el
>;;; in Emacs version 23.0.51
>;;; with all optimizations.
>
>The information is sufficient for determining whether the compilation
>happened on the current machine by the current user, and if so, what
>the actual source file has been.
>
>So in this particular case, I'd prefer if, without further
>configuration and ado, I'd be landed in the corresponding source file
>if it is still present on the given machine.
>
>Since I have several packages I build and install from the respective
>CVS source archives, having this work automatically would be quite
>nice.
I agree. M-. now always creates buffers like "subr.el<2>", which
is not good.
Regards,
Guanpeng Xu
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-17 4:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-14 10:16 A suggestion David Kastrup
2007-05-17 4:31 ` Herbert Euler [this message]
2007-05-17 7:14 ` David Kastrup
2007-05-17 14:28 ` Jan Djärv
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