Re: find-function-C-source-directory

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 23:50:08 +0200
> > From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> >
> > It is quite hard for those downloading prebuilt binaries of Emacs to 
> > view the C sources.
> >     
>
> Could you elaborate a bit: what makes it hard?
>
> I assume you are talking about users that do have the sources on their
> machine, so the only problem is that the source directory is not what
> is recorded in the binary.  If so, the only problem I know of is that
> they need to type in the directory where they have the sources, only
> once per session, when Emacs prompts for it.
>   
Yes, that is correct. The problem is how they should find out that. 
Where is that information? I think that it should be there right when 
they try to access the C sources from within help. And possibly 
somewhere in the manual too.

If find-function-C-source-directory is nil then the user is prompted for 
the directory where the sources are. I think that is good, but not in 
accordance with the doc string for this var. But it is quite hard to 
find out that it is this variable you should set if you want it Emacs to 
remember where the sources are. And if you set it to something wrong 
then perhaps a hint about the var should be good?