From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Spencer Baugh Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Changing site-lisp without installing it Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2023 17:14:51 -0400 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17351"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:kgFEfBseAcpLTOSbADG0YQeJma4= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 02 23:15:41 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 1qRJC1-0004MK-4Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2023 23:15:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qRJBS-0002dD-Qp; Wed, 02 Aug 2023 17:15:07 -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 1qRJBO-0002cq-Gu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2023 17:15:02 -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 1qRJBM-0001p1-To for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2023 17:15:02 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qRJBJ-0003K8-LQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2023 23:14:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ 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: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:144562 Archived-At: I want to start using site-lisp at my site. But I'm not sure how to hack on changed versions of the site-lisp, without installing it. What would be ideal for me is this: - There is a normal, installed Emacs, with a site-lisp directory. My users run this and get the installed site-lisp directory. All normal. - I run this same Emacs binary in some way, I don't know how, to make it use a replacement site-lisp directory, instead of the installed one, so that I can hack on the site-lisp, without having to build a new Emacs or change the actual installed site-lisp directory. Now that I say all this, I guess the obvious thing to do is simply pass --no-site-lisp --directory my/local/changed/site-lisp and then hack away. But will that behave correctly? Are there any footguns there? (Does anyone actually use site-lisp? It seems a little under-explored, but I think it will be really useful at my site, so that people can easily run "emacs -q" to get an emacs with only the site configuration which should help with debugging their problems)