From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: best gnu/linux distro for emacs
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:52:38 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kimltm$moc$1@colin.muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.22739.1364097866.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> Jay Belanger wrote:
>> > I recall there were some complaints that Debian had some odd Emacs
>> > setup; I don't recall the details, but I seem to recall David Kastrup
>> > pointing them out. Does anybody remember?
>> They put a dummy site-start.el under /etc somewhere. This can catch you
>> out if you have your real site-start.el in a normal Emacs place such as
>> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el since the dummy one gets
>> loaded instead of the real one.
> The empty template file is:
> /etc/emacs/site-start.el
> What makes /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el the normal
> path and /etc/emacs/site-start.el something not normal?
A very good question! I've had a quick search of the Emacs manual and not
found anything specifying the contents of load-path. The next best thing
was:
"Many sites put these files in a subdirectory named `site-lisp' in the
Emacs installation directory, such as `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp'."
, from the chapter "The Emacs Initialization File". I'm confident that
/etc/emacs exists nowhere in the manual.
When I start emacs -Q, load-path contains the directories under
/usr/local/share/emacs/24.3/lisp together with
/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp. So it would seem, for a standard build,
that .../site-lisp is the only safe place for site-start.el.
Presumably, there's a way of setting load-path as part of the build
process, and the Debian Emacs team uses it.
> In any case... One could always put the customizations in that file.
> That is rather what is expected. Or one could add a load statement
> there to load /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el if you
> want to keep the customizations there. It is six of one or a half
> dozen of the other.
GRRR!!! Yes, one can do any of these things, but only after having
discovered there's a problem which needs fixing, and diagnosing that
problem. This cost me, perhaps, an hour or two back in 2005 when I
first installed Debian on a new PC, and my site-start.el wasn't loading.
> Bob
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-24 10:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-23 10:09 best gnu/linux distro for emacs Alan E. Davis
2013-03-23 13:31 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-03-23 15:24 ` Jude DaShiell
[not found] ` <mailman.22700.1364045502.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-03-23 16:07 ` Jay Belanger
2013-03-23 16:38 ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-03-24 4:04 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.22739.1364097866.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-03-24 10:52 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2013-03-24 20:37 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.22764.1364157438.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-03-25 12:01 ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-03-25 20:18 ` W. Greenhouse
2013-03-27 21:29 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2013-03-30 22:56 ` Bob Proulx
2013-03-31 10:38 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-03-23 17:10 ` Peter Münster
2013-03-24 15:51 ` W. Greenhouse
2013-03-24 22:59 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-03-25 1:00 ` W. Greenhouse
2013-03-25 14:42 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-03-25 18:14 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-03-25 19:04 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-03-26 13:29 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-03-25 10:29 ` Bastian Ballmann
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