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Re: getting the source finding button in c-h f help buffers to work
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tomas |
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Re: getting the source finding button in c-h f help buffers to work |
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Fri, 12 Feb 2016 20:15:30 +0100 |
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On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:24:44AM -0700, Samuel Wales wrote:
> when you do c-h f, emacs provides a link to the source. i have always
> relied on this feature.
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> in my own code, i have always kept byte-compiled files in a separate
> directory from the source. this has never been a problem.
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> in a recent version of emacs, perhaps a recent emacs 24 minor version,
> it seems that c-h f source links no longer work if you keep your
> byte-compiled files in a separate directory from the source files.
> more specifically, they no longer exist.
This is a dejà vu...
there was a thread about that here a while ago:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2016-02/threads.html#00004>
The gist is you can set a variable `find-function-C-source-directory'
to tip Emacs in the right direction.
Regards
- -- t
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