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Re: what is the point of point-min?
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Greg Hill |
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Re: what is the point of point-min? |
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Thu, 28 Aug 2003 14:11:30 -0700 |
At 10:05 PM +0200 8/28/03, Kai Großjohann wrote:
Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
If they were Lisp functions I would have just read the source. But
* I hate reading C.
Well, reading Emacs C code is very unlike reading other C code, so
please do give it a try.
Indeed it is. In fact, until you have mastered the peculiar coding
conventions it adheres to, including the usage of ten billion
#defined terms whose meanings are far from obvious, it is very VERY
much more difficult than reading any other C code that I have ever
encountered. For all intents and purposes, Emacs C is a language
unto itself, whose mastery is much more difficult than any "general
purpose" language like LISP. Though not by any means a "C guru," I
have done a fair amount of both writing C code from scratch and
maintaining other people's C code; and I have long-since concluded
that looking at the C source for Emacs hoping to figure out what it
is doing is a total waste of my time. I have never made any
significant progress in anything close to a reasonable amount of time.
So "give it a try" at the risk of your sanity. And don't feel bad it
the experience leaves you feeling totally frustrated, irritated and
alienated.
--Greg
- what is the point of point-min?, Joe Corneli, 2003/08/27
- Re: what is the point of point-min?, Oliver Scholz, 2003/08/29
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- Re: what is the point of point-min?, Kai Großjohann, 2003/08/29
- Re: what is the point of point-min?, Rob Thorpe, 2003/08/29
- Re: what is the point of point-min?, Jesper Harder, 2003/08/29
- Re: what is the point of point-min?, Kevin Rodgers, 2003/08/28
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- Re: what is the point of point-min?, Jesper Harder, 2003/08/28