From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Tennant Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Another 'best' practices question ?? Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 21:24:03 +0300 Message-ID: <87ejlw1m7w.fsf@moley.org> References: <1178296587.165223.59960@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178302996 28410 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2007 18:23:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 18:23:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 04 20:23:15 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hk2Qt-0005Zj-DP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 20:23:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hk2XX-00025l-VC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 14:30:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hk2XH-00021W-Ts for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 14:29:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hk2XF-0001uI-9I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 14:29:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hk2XF-0001u5-5s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 14:29:41 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hk2QZ-0001K1-Gk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 14:22:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Hk2QP-0003az-10 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 20:22:37 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.105.17.65 ([85.105.17.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 May 2007 20:22:37 +0200 Original-Received: from sebyte by 85.105.17.65 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 May 2007 20:22:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.105.17.65 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:aplc/OZ5172YbnkAaHnq7UrqsTo= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43685 Archived-At: Quoth Robert Thorpe : > The normal procedures is to keep the regular Emacs separate from your > customizations of it. So, usually you put modes that you have > downloaded from elsewhere somewhere out of the way of the normal Emacs > tree. This allows you to upgrade Emacs more simply. The normal place > to put these modes is in "site-lisp". There are two "site-lisp" > directories, one in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp is intended for things > that can work on many versions of emacs. The one in /usr/share/emacs/ > 22.0.95/site-lisp is intended for things that are there for the > benefit of that particular version of Emacs. There's a reason these directories contain the word 'site', namely that whatever is found in them is availble site-wide, i.e, to all the users of your machine. Consequently adding files to these directories requires root privileges. If what you want to 'install' is just for your own personal use then create a ~/elisp directory, put the source files there, and add ~/.elisp to your load-path. > A simple mode consisting of a single .el file I would put straight > into the site-lisp directory. If the mode consists of many files that > would make reading the directory confusing then I'd make a new > directory just to put the mode in. Then add that dir to the load-path > in .emacs. Or, add a line into .emacs to load the main file of the > mode directly rather than relying on the load-path. > > There are no hard-and-fast rules. Indeed, there are not. But it's always possible to do the right thing, or the wrong one ;-) Sebastian P.S. Apologies if I'm missing the point, having not read the thread from the beginning.