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[wishlist] Let symbol-file handle functions defined in C source files

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From: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: [wishlist] Let symbol-file handle functions defined in C source files
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 19:31:49 +0800

severity wishlist

I wish that symbol-file could handle _any_ kind of symbols.  I just
tried two symbols (both of them are defined in C), but neither of them
works:

(symbol-file 'symbol-function)
⇒ nil

(symbol-file 'set)
⇒ nil

(Don't know whether it can handle uninterned symbols.)

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 14932 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14932: [wishlist] Let symbol-file handle functions defined in
 C source files
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 14:33:26 -0400

> I wish that symbol-file could handle _any_ kind of symbols.  I just
> tried two symbols (both of them are defined in C), but neither of them
> works:

> (symbol-file 'symbol-function)
> ⇒ nil

> (symbol-file 'set)
> ⇒ nil

You can find the "symbol file" of functions defined in C, as
demonstrated by C-h f symbol-function RET (which uses help-C-file-name),
but indeed symbol-file does not do it.  Do you have a particular reason
why you'd need it?


        Stefan

Message #11 received at 14932 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free <at> gmail.com>, 14932 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14932: [wishlist] Let symbol-file handle functions defined
 in C source files
Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 08:25:37 +0200

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> You can find the "symbol file" of functions defined in C, as
> demonstrated by C-h f symbol-function RET (which uses help-C-file-name),
> but indeed symbol-file does not do it.

I've now mentioned this in the doc string.

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