Re: Comment on Emacs Lisp Introduction

[Fren Zeee]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 1:01 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Fren Zeee <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Robert, does your intro book explain things like how to get the full
>> definition of a function like for example
>>
>> next-line which is a down arrow
>>
>> (symbol-function 'next-line)
>> #[(arg) " \203& [next-line-add-newlines arg abbrev-mode 1 nil "
>> " line-move (line-move arg) ((... ...))] 3 1337315 "p"]
>>
>> I could not figure out from online doc and apropos how to do it.
>
> Huh?
>
> C-h f next-line RET gives the online doc, and the very first line is
>
> next-line is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple.el'.
>
> where the string `simple.el' is a hyperlink leading to the definition of
> next-line in simple.el.  So I don't understand what problem you
> encountered using the online documentation.  You can also use
> M-x find-function RET next-line RET
> to get to the source.
>
> What is your problem?

David, My problem is that I want to see the function definition of next-line.