From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Changing site-lisp without installing it
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2023 17:14:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ier4jlh9mes.fsf@janestreet.com> (raw)
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)
next reply other threads:[~2023-08-02 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-02 21:14 Spencer Baugh [this message]
2023-08-03 0:25 ` Changing site-lisp without installing it Emanuel Berg
2023-08-03 4:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-03 15:58 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-08-03 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-03 18:46 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-08-04 5:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-03 16:10 ` Emanuel Berg
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