From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Manuel Giraud via "Emacs development discussions." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: source-directory, installed Emacs, and C source Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 21:07:16 +0200 Message-ID: <87pm12cyhn.fsf@ledu-giraud.fr> References: <875y2wrt0q.fsf@catern.com> <83cyx4krfm.fsf@gnu.org> <837cncko34.fsf@gnu.org> <87y1fsq9ef.fsf@catern.com> <831qdjlvi3.fsf@gnu.org> <87msw75c1u.fsf@ledu-giraud.fr> <83bkcmkh36.fsf@gnu.org> <87r0liet3w.fsf@ledu-giraud.fr> <87pm12kebg.fsf@catern.com> <83ttqeiyzy.fsf@gnu.org> <87lebqkc75.fsf@catern.com> <83lebqissx.fsf@gnu.org> <87y1fqd11p.fsf@ledu-giraud.fr> <83cyx2im5b.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Manuel Giraud Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38706"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cc: sbaugh@catern.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 25 21:08:16 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1qvjEm-0009pH-5f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2023 21:08:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qvjDw-0003vz-Et; Wed, 25 Oct 2023 15:07:24 -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 1qvjDu-0003vl-LN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2023 15:07:22 -0400 Original-Received: from ledu-giraud.fr ([51.159.28.247]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qvjDs-00086o-Sv; Wed, 25 Oct 2023 15:07:22 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; c=simple/simple; s=ed25519; bh=c2RjK4XK RcHg1f5Z/pOs2t7RYbS4FdNg18fM0U2fRPQ=; h=date:references:in-reply-to: subject:cc:to:from; d=ledu-giraud.fr; b=7NuQjoFHmvW9tDa5JxxYO9QAOMAzFt cEMKuCAWPEmqrLfOXbxNmxBsDclhlUDRV7kbBYqiauPRyLE+6r5VO0DQ== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; s=rsa; bh=c2RjK4XKRcHg1f5Z /pOs2t7RYbS4FdNg18fM0U2fRPQ=; h=date:references:in-reply-to:subject: cc:to:from; d=ledu-giraud.fr; b=KXq1l4rZVFYrGElYg8EfJmqv6kZ6xYTq/Lcya/ 6HsbBD8+GAISre3xctqgiG3Km4g0BMDxVhZcomkSmb9Cit30MSOx/Sb4nm49Dv0/JMY1YQ h30p1cksuWnaxe4L3pn302GJ/aTEzg+HgFN/Pybk7mgr0u8/zzURUu+fESKt5M3fARomfU tbYnAj+hdl/bolhe54d82dZ8OzVfGz5ydpts5msp/CAkXjc8hlZoMLkW+twEFeTfxH4q3q +xZMsBMbhvZ32Pr+jpqHDDU935hO+gx0352qpSuyEx9VkuTVUHGSaX7kYZzej1ax4Xlvh4 fJHzxfXUidVioTTPbn1PrAAQ== Original-Received: from computer ( [10.1.1.1]) by ledu-giraud.fr (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 78116f9e (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Wed, 25 Oct 2023 21:07:18 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <83cyx2im5b.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 25 Oct 2023 21:37:20 +0300") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=51.159.28.247; envelope-from=manuel@ledu-giraud.fr; helo=ledu-giraud.fr X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:311862 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: [...] >> I think I may have a use case: if you are working *on* Emacs >> development. I kind of know when my current running Emacs is in sync >> with its source directory. So if I want to work on some feature it is >> easier to jump directly files into the source directory and start >> modifying those files. This way those modifications are directly >> tracked by git in preparation of a future patch. > > If you are working on developing Emacs, why do you install the > development version? The usual paradigm in that case is to run Emacs > from the source tree, uninstalled. This is supported since about > forever. But, as I said, I could be doing it wrong ;-) Thanks for enlightening me. I will look into how to run Emacs uninstalled. -- Manuel Giraud