On 2 September 2010 at 09:43, Stephen Eglen wrote:
| 
| > the .elc makes it clear what come from what.  It may ensure the right
| > file is reached by the source-file hyperlinks in the help system too.
| 
| That was also what I thought might be a worry -- if .elc and .el are in
| different directories, Emacs may not be able to find the .el file.
| e.g. if you do "C-h f pwd RET"
| you should see:
|   pwd is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `files.el'.
| 
| files.el should be underlined.  If you press RET with point on files.el,
| it should take you to the point in that file where pwd is defined.
| 
| Does that still work when the .el and .elc files are in different
| folders?

You quoted some much out of context that I has a non-Elisp programmer amd out
of scope here.  No idea.

Dirk

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Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com



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