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Re: reading the C source of Emacs
From: |
Janusz S. Bień |
Subject: |
Re: reading the C source of Emacs |
Date: |
13 Jan 2003 06:52:00 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.93 |
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de> wrote:
> I have just taught myself the very first baby steps of C. I want to
> read and understand the C sources of Emacs.
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) wrote:
[...]
> Wow. An admirable goal. I do not understand the C sources of Emacs.
> Amazingly, this has not stopped me from doing modifications here and
> there. (Or was it only here? Yes, I think it was only one -- minor!
> -- modification.)
>
> And I agree with David that it might be useful to do an on-demand
> kind of learning, rather than trying to just grok everything.
I support all of this.
Try to understand better the Emacs functions you use. Start with `C-h
k' or `C-h f', then follow the help links to Lisp and C code. Make
sure you have the proper TAGS file and use `M-.' to navigate inside
the program source.
JSB
--
,
dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW
Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity
http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
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Re: reading the C source of Emacs, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, 2003/01/13