From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikola Skoric Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Where is simple.el? Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:38:39 +0000 (UTC) Organization: FER Message-ID: References: <87y7e57gpx.fsf@laptop.shootybangbang.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192441313 27507 80.91.229.12 (15 Oct 2007 09:41:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:41:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 15 11:41:44 2007 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 4.50) id 1IhMRF-00040f-Ut for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:40:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IhMR9-0000CL-4a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:40:35 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feed.xsnews.nl!border-2.ams.xsnews.nl!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.t-com.hr!news3.t-com.hr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 78-0-82-73.adsl.net.t-com.hr Original-X-Trace: ss408.t-com.hr 1192441119 27097 78.0.82.73 (15 Oct 2007 09:38:39 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-com.hr Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:38:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152929 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:48434 Archived-At: Dana Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:23:38 +0100, John Paul Wallington kaze: > Nikola Skoric writes: > >> I'd like to read simple.el... but I just can't find it :-D Where >> should I look for simple.el? > > It may be the case that you don't have the lisp sources but rather > only the byte-compiled libraries because your distributor has made > the lisp sources an optional package. Yes, I tried find-library and I tried clicking on simple.el link, but library can't be found. So it is probably compiled. > It looks like you are on Debian. You can find out which packages > provide a particular file on Debian systems using their website: > > http://packages.debian.org/file:simple.el&mode=exactfilename I'm on ubuntu 7.04 in fact. The link didn't help much, I looked into /usr/share/emacs already and couldn't find anything there. So, is there a place where I can download simple.el? -- "Now the storm has passed over me I'm left to drift on a dead calm sea And watch her forever through the cracks in the beams Nailed across the doorways of the bedrooms of my dreams"