Re: reading the C source of Emacs

[Janusz S. Bień]

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

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Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity
http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/