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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2020-01-26 00:58:57 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2020-01-26 00:59:25 -0800 |
| commit | 491c909175eb9ff99ff3fdf766e81b333b9d316a (patch) | |
| tree | 2f6d03cce4a4b88a5f18e52df61b25ac72a637a1 | |
| parent | 26d890c9ccb1e95f5451432bb6bb764b590b165e (diff) | |
| download | emacs-491c909175eb9ff99ff3fdf766e81b333b9d316a.tar.gz | |
Improve doc for emacs-source-directory (Bug#36527).
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/NEWS | 5 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -219,8 +219,8 @@ DEBUGGING AN INSTALLED EMACS * Installed Emacs source code -Emacs installs a compressed copy of much of its source code, to make -it easy for users to read the source code of Emacs via commands like +Emacs typically installs a compressed copy of much of its source code, +to make it easy for users to read Emacs source code via commands like M-x describe-function (C-h f) to display the definition of a function. This compressed copy ordinarily includes both the Elisp source code that Emacs is mostly written in, as well as the C source code for the @@ -148,8 +148,9 @@ called when the function object is garbage-collected. Use ** 'parse-time-string' can now parse ISO 8601 format strings, such as "2020-01-15T16:12:21-08:00". -** The new variable 'emacs-source-directory' gives the Emacs source -code location. +** The new variable 'emacs-source-directory' gives the location of +a copy of the Emacs source code, which is now typically installed as a +set of compressed source-code files. * Changes in Emacs 28.1 on Non-Free Operating Systems |