From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: TAGS Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 01:44:40 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: 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 1295779360 10156 80.91.229.12 (23 Jan 2011 10:42:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:42:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 23 11:42:35 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1PgxP0-0007EX-Gn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 11:42:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47947 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PgxOz-0001bB-P8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:42:33 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!d7g2000vbv.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 116.73.35.230 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1295775881 23486 127.0.0.1 (23 Jan 2011 09:44:41 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 09:44:41 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d7g2000vbv.googlegroups.com; posting-host=116.73.35.230; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:184505 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78668 Archived-At: On Jan 23, 1:12=A0pm, simon cossar wrote: > Hello list - I hope this as the appropriate place for my question. I am > fairly new to computers - I am just discovering emacs lisp and creating > simple functions. I am trying to view the source code of built in > functions - I understand how to use etags to set up a =A0tags file for a > directory but I can't find the directory that contains the built in > functions. I am finding all sorts of .elc files. Is it possible that > everything has been byte-compiled? I am on Ubuntu 10.04 (64 bit) with > emacs 23.1.1. If anyone could point me in the right direction it would > be greatly appreciated. =A0 > Simon 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. A more helpful answer would be that if > I am fairly new to computers - I am just discovering > emacs lisp and creating simple functions. then you would be better off doing: while (fairly new to computers and emacs) do use emacs read elisp