From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: harven Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: TAGS Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 11:00:48 +0100 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295779425 10406 80.91.229.12 (23 Jan 2011 10:43:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:43:45 +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 11:43:41 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 1PgxQ4-0007cC-A0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 11:43:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48801 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PgxQ3-0002CZ-Ma for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:43:39 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!usenet-fr.net!fdn.fr!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed1-a.proxad.net!nnrp15-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/8LcRfldvRJm3AriwJsbKRB0+r0= Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Jan 2011 11:00:48 MET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 78.233.232.132 Original-X-Trace: 1295776848 news-3.free.fr 5002 78.233.232.132:53337 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:184507 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:78670 Archived-At: simon cossar writes: > 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 tags 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. > Simon If you want to browse emacs lisp sources, you don't need to create tags. You can get to the definition of a command by typing C-h f RET then enter the name of the command. You then get a summary of the command in a window. Now clicking on the underlined filename on the upper right of the window will bring you to the source.