Re: source-directory, installed Emacs, and C source

[Emanuel Berg]

Manuel Giraud via "Emacs development discussions." wrote:

>> - Jumping to a newer function definition is a problem.
>>
>>   So we shouldn't be doing it for C.
>
> I think it is already the case for « normal » Emacs users.
> If you install Emacs for your distribution's package,
> correct me if I'm wrong, but you won't be able to jump to
> C definitions. So this option is already done for
> those users.

Not entirely, remember, one can first do the repository
package, then

  $ apt-get -qq source PACK

If you only use the repos version, and don't really care about
compiling Emacs (but you do care about the C of Emacs) -
I mean, I'm glad we have all kinds, so then yes they can use
that command to get the source corresponding to their
repository install.

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