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From: | martin rudalics |
Subject: | bug#671: 23.0.60; To source or not to source (from help) |
Date: | Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:52:23 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) |
> If you do C-h v and look at a variable and click on the library link in > the help buffer you will go to the file in your current Emacs tree. If > you do C-h f to look at a function and do the same you will be taken to > the cvs checkout file instead. I suspect you compiled Emacs in the checkout directory and then copied the Emacs tree to another directory. In this case the following might happen: As for C-h f `describe-function-1' will execute ;; See if lisp files are present where they where installed from. (if (not (eq file-name 'C-source)) (setq file-name (find-source-lisp-file file-name))) which sets `file-name' to the ".el" file from the checkout directory (because you did compile it there) and installs the corresponding reference in the hyperlink. As for C-h v `describe-variable' does _not_ care whether you compiled in another directory and simply goes to the file supplied by `symbol-file'. You could try inserting the snipped above in `describe-variable' immediately before the line (if file-name and see whether it now jumps to the checkout directory instead. Personally, I'd prefer something like the following in both cases: (unless (or (eq file-name 'C-source) (file-exists-p file-name)) (setq file-name (find-source-lisp-file file-name))) martin
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