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  2. From: ratinox@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu (Richard Pieri/Stainless Steel Rat)
  3. Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
  4. Subject: Re: How to locate a function?
  5. Message-ID: <RATINOX.92Jul28102715@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu>
  6. Date: 28 Jul 92 14:27:15 GMT
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  12. In-reply-to: bcho@ISI.EDU's message of 27 Jul 92 23:50:48 GMT
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  17. >>>>> On 27 Jul 92 23:50:48 GMT, bcho@ISI.EDU (Bonghan Cho) said:
  18.  
  19. BC> How can I know the directory where a given function resides?
  20. BC> Since the load path has many paths, otherwise, it is very diffcult to
  21. BC> locate functions in order to modify the function definitions.
  22.  
  23. Myself, I do a 'grep "(defun <function-name>" /usr/local/share/elisp/*.el'.
  24. Not pretty, but it does work, because anything not in there I've autoloaded
  25. myself.
  26.  
  27. --Rat
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