Re: searching elisp on debian/ubuntu

[Alex Bennée]

rustompmody@gmail.com writes:

> On Friday, October 25, 2013 2:40:52 PM UTC+5:30, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> Rustom Mody wrote:
>> 
>> > [This is more about debian ubuntu than emacs]
>> >
>> > When looking for something in elisp on debian/ubuntu there is the
>> > nuisance that the files are gzipped.  So Ive to do things like
>> 
>> What sort of things are you looking for?
>
> eg Figure out how the function 'make-translation-table' is used in elisp
> etc etc

C-h f make-translation-table
TAB (onto the highlighted mule.el)
RET (goes to the definition in mule.el.gz)

>> > find /usr/share/emacs/23.4/lisp *.gz|xargs zgrep <something>
>> 
<snip>

I agree finding all places where this call is made is more tricky
however. It would probably be easier just to have a checkout of the main
emacs src code for you to grep through?

-- 
Alex Bennée