Re: emacs C question

[John Russell]

jasonr (Jason Rumney) @  f2s.com writes:

> John Russell <jorussel@cisco.com> writes:
> 
> > Pascal Bourguignon <spam@thalassa.informatimago.com> writes:
> > 
> > > John Russell <jorussel@cisco.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > > I'm not sure if this is the right group for this.  I am picking
> > > > around the emacs C source.  How can I make emacs open a file from the
> > > > internal C code.  e.g. write a function in emacs/src/buffer.c
> > > > that opens a specific file.  Any ideas?  Thanks
> > 
> > Because I'm trying to implement drag and drop for gtk emacs.
> 
> It would be better to make drag and drop generate an event, which can
> then be bound to any lisp function the user wants (that accepts a
> filename). The Windows implementation works like this (although there
> is a special function that it is bound to, so maybe it could do with
> some work to generalize it).

How does one "bind" something to an event?  Like I keep saying, I'm
new in the emacs C code.  Thanks for the suggestoin.

John