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| From: | Stefan Monnier |
| Subject: | Re: How does `describe-function' know where the source code of the function is? |
| Date: | Mon, 17 Jan 2022 21:51:58 -0500 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> question is: how does `describe-function' know where the link should
> point to (and if it should be rendered at all)? I skimmed its source
The name of the file is stored in `load-history`. The function
definition itself is then found (or not) by a naive regexp search.
Stefan
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