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Changing site-lisp without installing it
From: |
Spencer Baugh |
Subject: |
Changing site-lisp without installing it |
Date: |
Wed, 02 Aug 2023 17:14:51 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
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)
- Changing site-lisp without installing it,
Spencer Baugh <=
Re: Changing site-lisp without installing it, Emanuel Berg, 2023/08/04