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From: weiner@novavax.UUCP (Bob Weiner)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: How to find 'defuns' in GNU Emacs source
Message-ID: <638@novavax.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jul 88 22:27:26 GMT
References: <31209@philabs.Philips.Com>
Organization: Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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In-reply-to: fcg@briar.philips.com's message of 21 Jul 88 19:18:00 GMT
Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.47.5 of Tue Sep 15 1987 on novavax (berkeley-unix)


To find the defun associated with any GNU Emacs function follow these
steps at the shell level:

  1.  cd <EMACS-DIR>/lisp

  2.  <EMACS-DIR>/etc/etags *.el ../src/*.[ch]

	This gets all function definitions written in lisp or C.

  3.  From within emacs:

	M-x visit-tags-file <RTN> <EMACS-DIR>/lisp/TAGS <RTN>

	M-. <FUNCTION-NAME> <RTN>   ;; M-. = find-tag

	emacs will find the file that the function is defined in and
	bring it up in a buffer.

  4.  See the GNU Emacs manual section on Tags for more help.



			Bob Weiner
			novavax!mopdsrmc!weiner