From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: getting the source finding button in c-h f help buffers to work Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 09:43:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455299048 8077 80.91.229.3 (12 Feb 2016 17:44:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 17:44:08 +0000 (UTC) To: Samuel Wales , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 12 18:43:50 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aUHkz-0000Qj-I3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 18:43:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34850 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUHkv-000705-NP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 12:43:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44902) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUHkk-0006zm-Dn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 12:43:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUHkh-0004MC-3S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 12:43:34 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:25005) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aUHkg-0004Lr-Tp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 12:43:31 -0500 Original-Received: from aserv0021.oracle.com (aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id u1CHhQRs027661 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 12 Feb 2016 17:43:26 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0121.oracle.com (aserv0121.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by aserv0021.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u1CHhQMW005673 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Fri, 12 Feb 2016 17:43:26 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0018.oracle.com (abhmp0018.oracle.com [141.146.116.24]) by aserv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u1CHhQk4013768; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 17:43:26 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109143 Archived-At: > when you do c-h f, emacs provides a link to the source. i have always > relied on this feature. >=20 > in my own code, i have always kept byte-compiled files in a separate > directory from the source. this has never been a problem. >=20 > in a recent version of emacs, perhaps a recent emacs 24 minor version, > it seems that c-h f source links no longer work if you keep your > byte-compiled files in a separate directory from the source files. > more specifically, they no longer exist. >=20 > what i'd like to do is have them exist again, without having to change > the way i load my byte-compiled files just to get them to exist again. >=20 > in other words, i want c-h f to work again, the way it did before the > recent version of emacs. >=20 > i do not know why this occurs. i just know that it stopped working. > i did not change anything in my .emacs. > i am using "24.4.1". M-x report-emacs-bug