RE: A suggestion...

["Herbert Euler" <herberteuler@hotmail.com>]

>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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