Re: Emacs C source code

[Yuri Khan]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:29 PM, XeCycle <XeCycle@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ubuntu, like Debian, guesses you won't need those files.  You can
> get the source release from GNU.

Not entirely correct. In debianoids, one can download the sources from
which a binary package was built by issuing this:

# apt-get source <packagename>

e.g.

# apt-get source emacs

This puts the sources in a subdirectory of the current working
directory, so then Emacs needs to be configured to find its sources
there.