Re: Comment on Emacs Lisp Introduction

[Fren Zeee]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Fren Zeee <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
>
ie lisp code without having to search, find which file has it and then
open it. On some platforms, I dont have the source and its an
unnecessary interruption in the work to go and make the detour to
search for it.