Re: TAGS

[rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>]

On Jan 23, 10:15 pm, Memnon Anon <gegendosenflei...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Strict answer: Built in functions are in source code. If you installed
> > emacs from apt (apt-get/synaptic etc) you probably dont and cant get
> > those.  If you want it compile emacs by hand which is not very hard on
> > linux.
>
> Package: emacs23-el
> Priority: optional
> Section: editors
> Installed-Size: 16076
> Maintainer: Rob Browning <r...@defaultvalue.org>
> Architecture: all
> Source: emacs23
> Version: 23.2+1-7
> Depends: emacs23-common (= 23.2+1-7)
> Filename: pool/main/e/emacs23/emacs23-el_23.2+1-7_all.deb
> Size: 13706372
> MD5sum: 7ef805f9c2bbc10c9aef49ea53984a77
> SHA1: 2da5302944705aa1a3c4e50145a552a7a89fa8fd
> SHA256: be99c45355e102f7f16409d7b9f239d6df79fbdf8a9d8e8bcc08d16991674f82
> Description: GNU Emacs LISP (.el) files
>  GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor.
>  This package contains the elisp sources for the convenience of users,
>  saving space in the main package for small systems.
> Homepage:http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
> Tag: devel::lang:lisp, implemented-in::lisp, role::source, suite::emacs

I guess there is a confusion because the word "builtin" has two
closely related but different meanings.

Narrow meaning: "builtin" means built into the C core -- ie written in
C.
You will see this usage if you ask help on the function car or +

The looser broader meaning is: anything that comes with emacs.

If the OP meant the looser meaning then emacs23-el should (mostly)
suffice
If the narrower then he will probably need to compile emacs for
himself.
In any case etags-tagging is not necessary and if you do it it will be
a big pain to interface it with the emacs describe-fucntion etc help
system