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Emacs on Ubuntu: Function documentation lacks link to source code

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Mar 15, 2026415 views
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I use Emacs on Ubuntu at work. One persistent annoyance has been that function documentation does not include a link to the function's source code. For example, on my Ubuntu system the documentation for begins: find-file is an interactive compiled Lisp function. On my home machine, the same functio…

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Fix for: Emacs on Ubuntu: Function documentation lacks link to source code

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Ubuntu doesn't install the source by default, so there's nothing for it to point to. You need to install the package.

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