From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "christopherbalz" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get rid of stock (standard) speedbar if do not have root access? Date: 19 Dec 2006 10:00:17 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1166551217.061690.155560@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com> References: <1166031290.755052.213430@l12g2000cwl.googlegroups.com> <87y7pagkae.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166553684 21694 80.91.229.10 (19 Dec 2006 18:41:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:41:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 19 19:41:23 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gwjtu-0001VL-I0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:41:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gwjtt-0000Z0-RJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:41:17 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.51.197.126 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1166551223 26700 127.0.0.1 (19 Dec 2006 18:00:23 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:00:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Firefox/1.5.0.8,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=208.51.197.126; posting-account=vuULPQwAAACC6U0oTIeYncV2pdCE-Ru0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144146 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:39749 Archived-At: Eventually, the approach you suggested worked. I don't know why it didn't work before -- see my post just previous in time to this one. Thank you for the help! - Chris Tim X wrote: > "christopherbalz" writes: > > > I'm running the latest speedbar, as required by the Java Dev > > Environment for Emacs, so I need (per the instructions) to delete the > > stock speedbar. But, as with many users, I am working in an > > environment where I do not have root access. So I can't delete the old > > speedbar. > > > > Is there a way to get rid of the stock speedbar without having to copy > > over the entire install dir on the system to my local account and > > redirect Emacs on startup completely to that? For example, is there a > > way to manipulate the load path to avoid just the old speedbar, and > > leave the other loading unchanged? > > > > What about ensuring your locally installed speedbar code is found in > the load-path before the system wide one? I think this should result > in your version shadowing the system installed one. > > Tim > > > -- > tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au