file an emacs function is defined in

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Tue Mar 20 02:53:00 GMT 2012


On 3/19/2012 9:33 PM, leoslists wrote:
>
> Hi there
>
> I switched to Cygwin emacs and since then the help to a function
> (`describe-function')
> does not bring up the file the is defined in (e.g. "dired.el"). NTemacs and
> Emacs on Mac
> do this out of the box.

To keep the size of the emacs package down, it doesn't include the elisp 
files.  If you want those, you need to install the emacs-el package. 
Then everything should work as you expect.  Write again if it doesn't, 
with a complete recipe for reproducing the problem.

Ken


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