fred@seradg.Dayton.NCR.COM (Frederick G. Stock) (10/13/87)
I am attempting to learn the GNU emacs editor in an attempt to make some extensions to it. However, the UNIX system I am on does not have a TeX formatter so I can't print any of the documentation. (It doesn't seem like the delivered documentation covers extending the editor even if I could print it.) SO, I am looking for recommendations on how to get information concerning making enhancements to the editor. Books, articles, etc., anything to get me going. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Please respond by email, and thanks a bundle in advance. -- Fred Stock CSNET: f.stock@dayton.NCR.COM SE-Retail, SER-2 Disclaimer: "All this science I don't 9797 Springboro Pike understand, it's just my job five Miamisburg, Ohio 45342 days a week." - Rocket Man
jep@tlxprs.UUCP (Jo Poplawski) (01/22/88)
I know this may sound stupid, but I have recently received several different copies of Public Domain Emacs programs, and I was wondering if anybody had any documentaion to it. I am fairly good with VI, but I would like to try out Emacs. Any help would be appreciated. Jo Poplawski jep@tlxprs.UUCP
rustcat@russell.STANFORD.EDU (Vallury Prabhakar) (01/28/88)
Hello, I was looking around to see how `describe-function' got the appropriate documentation string for the specified function, and ran across a function called (guess!) `documentation'. However, I couldn't locate this function in any of the .el files. Am I missing something here? I'd appreciate any help. Regards, -- Vallury Prabhakar PS: Aha! Almost forgot. V 18.49.2 on a 4.2BSD system -- E-mail: rustcat@russell.stanford.edu
Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram) (01/28/88)
In article <2014@russell.STANFORD.EDU>, rustcat@russell (Vallury Prabhakar) writes: > I was looking around to see how `describe-function' got the appropriate > documentation string for the specified function, and ran across a function > called (guess!) `documentation'. However, I couldn't locate this function > in any of the .el files. Am I missing something here? I'd appreciate any > help. Many Emacs commands are actually written in C (although you can redefine them in Lisp if you wanted to. It's all pretty transparent.) In this case, documentation, documentation-style, and other related doc functions are all defined in src/doc.c . -- Ashwin Ram -- ARPA: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu UUCP: {decvax,ucbvax,harvard,cmcl2,...}!yale!Ram-Ashwin BITNET: Ram@yalecs
jr@LF-SERVER-2.BBN.COM (John Robinson) (01/28/88)
Should be, but this failed: To: Vallury Prabhakar <russell!rustcat@LABREA.STANFORD.EDU> This function, like many many others, is a lisp-callable fuction written in C. Look for it in emacs/src/doc.c. In general, to find function bar in the C sources, execute "grep Fbar *.c" in the emacs/src directory. /jr jr@bbn.com or jr@bbn.uucp