"Brian T. Sniffen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It certainly does: if there is no persistent form, it isn't the source.
But an xcf is not some weird thing which is not normally persistent. It is easily and trivially persistent. > Otherwise, the elisp code which is generated (and used, but usually never > seen) by programmers writing C in Emacs would have to be distributed as > part of the "build scripts" -- I don't have to distribute C-mode, the > current region stack, or ephemeral keyboard macros with my C programs, > right? I'm not entirely convinced it *always* applies, but in general it > seems that persistent storage is a good rule of thumb for identifying > source. If I didn't save it to work on later, it isn't source, but a > single act of creation. The more worrisome case, alas, is the person who *does* keep the .xcf, but won't distribute it. Or, for example, doesn't distribute whatever source is behind the audio patches distributed. And so forth.
