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Re: How does one find out what file a library has been loaded from?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: How does one find out what file a library has been loaded from?
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2022 14:50:12 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> if find-function knows where the function is, shouldn't it be possible
> to then tell what file it came from, and so consequently doesn't that
> answer the more general question of what  library a file came from?

There are different notions of origin at play here.  `find-function`
tries to find the source code origin.  Alan seems to want to know the
origin of the code in a shape as close as possible to that present in
the Emacs session.


        Stefan




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