From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Skipping installation of .el.gz files
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:35:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wmvdo9ks.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ierwmvedv45.fsf@janestreet.com> (message from Spencer Baugh on Sun, 22 Oct 2023 20:45:46 -0400)
> From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2023 20:45:46 -0400
>
>
> At my site, I'd like to install the Emacs source code along with Emacs
> and set source-directory, so that users can easily jump to function
> definitions and search the Emacs source.
>
> This works great for C function definitions, but Lisp function
> definitions still jump to the .el.gz files which are installed by "make
> install". If I delete those files, jumping to Lisp function definitions
> stops working entirely.
>
> Is there a clean and supported way to teach Emacs to jump to the files
> in source-directory instead of the .el.gz ones?
I suggest to override find-lisp-object-file-name with a similar
definition that does what you want. Alternatively (not tested) tweak
load-path to include the source tree's lisp/ directory and its
subdirectories before the directory where Lisp files were installed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-23 11:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-23 0:45 Skipping installation of .el.gz files Spencer Baugh
2023-10-23 5:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-10-23 6:41 ` Corwin Brust
2023-10-23 16:18 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-10-23 11:35 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-10-23 12:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-10-28 10:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-28 10:52 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-10-23 16:42 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-10-23 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-23 20:25 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-10-23 20:57 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-10-24 12:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-24 12:49 ` Emanuel Berg
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