Re: Skipping installation of .el.gz files

[Emanuel Berg]

Spencer Baugh wrote:

> At my site, I'd like to install the Emacs source code along
> with Emacs and set source-directory, so that users can
> easily jump to function definitions and search the
> Emacs source.
>
> This works great for C function definitions, but Lisp
> function definitions still jump to the .el.gz files which
> are installed by "make install". If I delete those files,
> jumping to Lisp function definitions stops working entirely.
>
> Is there a clean and supported way to teach Emacs to jump to
> the files in source-directory instead of the .el.gz ones?
> This is what it normally does when I run Emacs without
> installing it, so I expect it's possible.

Yes, but if you install it and run it it isn't run from there
anymore but from the installed files, so why aren't them the
ones you want to go to?

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