On Do, 06 Feb 2014, Martin Lundberg wrote:

> I've been asking for better documentation on the vim source-code before
> but after downloading the code, reading README.md in the src folder and
> going through the code itself, I have to say I'm sorry I didn't do it
> before.
> 
> However, after following the main and main_loop functions I've got some
> questions about the code.
> 
> 1. There's some prefixes used that I don't understand, what does mch_
> and p_ stand for? If there are more prefixes which is used a lot it
> would be great if you could list them too?

mch_ are system dependent functions (e.g. there is one mch_chdir() 
function in os_unix.c, os_mswin.c and os_amiga.c

p_ are usually global options, like e.g. p_acd (it uses the shortform of 
the option name, so you can easily look those up in options.txt

Don't know, if there are more of those.

> 2. What is the stuff buffer?

A buffer containing characters, that will be executed next. I think this 
is mainly used for repeating with the '.' command or macros.

> 3. What is topline?

This is the *topline* of the buffer displayed in the current window.

Best,
Christian

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