From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Skipping installation of .el.gz files Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 07:55:43 +0200 Message-ID: <87pm15naqo.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4034"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:h9oDo6YTsTvQKvT10WPzf749geE= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 28 12:36:57 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qwggb-0000rP-29 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2023 12:36:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qwgfN-0001KC-2c; Sat, 28 Oct 2023 06:35:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qunz0-0005mu-Ob for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2023 02:00:11 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qunyy-0002RJ-DX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2023 02:00:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qunys-000AWE-DR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2023 08:00:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 06:35:32 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:145396 Archived-At: Spencer Baugh wrote: > 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? > This is what it normally does when I run Emacs without > installing it, so I expect it's possible. Yes, but if you install it and run it it isn't run from there anymore but from the installed files, so why aren't them the ones you want to go to? -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal