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: Changing site-lisp without installing it Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2023 02:25:41 +0200 Message-ID: <87edklkm4a.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="15735"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:fld40dB6rtM4XsZK//S7TR5mivI= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 04 20:24:59 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 1qRzTu-0003pX-Fm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2023 20:24:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qRzTc-0003fh-N9; Fri, 04 Aug 2023 14:24:40 -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 1qRMA5-0000zH-NY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2023 20:25:53 -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 1qRMA3-0006qP-Pg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2023 20:25:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qRMA1-0004fJ-6P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2023 02:25:49 +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: -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-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 04 Aug 2023 14:24:38 -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:144590 Archived-At: Spencer Baugh wrote: > I want to start using site-lisp at my site. site = multi-user computer system, settings in site-lisp will be shared across users. > 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? Many, instead just add a file to the original path with whatever settings you wish to enforce across the realm ... > (Does anyone actually use site-lisp? It seems a little > under-explored [...] Collective settings, I don't think that idea is so useful. Whose .emacs are we gonna base it on, the "site" boss? Maybe one can share other stuff that makes more sense ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal