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Re: file/line info for macro expansion


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: file/line info for macro expansion
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 01:11:45 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> However, both `find-function' and `find-variable' seem to know file
> and line number where a function/variable has been defined.

Emacs knows the file name (in most cases, at least), thanks to
load-history.  But it doesn't know the line number.  Instead,
find-function will look for the definition with a regular expression.


        Stefan


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