From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: where does emacs's lisp files located ?
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:47:15 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <k5l671$9k4$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5j5zvow.fsf@wanadoo.es>
On 10/16/12 8:19 PM, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> horse_rivers<horse_rivers@126.com> writes:
>
>> I have installed my emacs successfully ,but I can not find its
>> lisp files which implement emacs's function.
>>
>> can you tell me?
>
> Suppose you want to see the code for function find-file. Then type:
>
> C-h f find-file [ENTER]
>
> A window will appear with the documentation for find-file. The first
> line on that window is:
>
> find-file is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `files.el'.
>
> The text `files.el' is an hyperlink. Click on it or move the cursor on
> top of it and press [ENTER] and Emacs will show the file where find-file
> is implemented. For me it is
Or: M-x find-function RET foobar RET
> /usr/local/share/emacs/24.1.50/lisp/files.el.gz
>
> but it varies depending on version, operative system and method of
> installation. The file.el.gz is compressed with gzip (to save disk
> space, apparently) but Emacs shows it decompressed for you.
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-17 1:29 where does emacs's lisp files located ? horse_rivers
2012-10-17 2:19 ` Óscar Fuentes
2012-10-17 2:25 ` horse_rivers
2012-10-17 2:47 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
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