Re: GNU Emacs theme submission

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() Tassilo Horn <address@hidden>
() Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:57:58 +0100

   Well, if you want to link to an emacs file in the repository by means of
   a browser, there's currently no other way than the git mirror.  The bzr
   repository cannot be browsed.

Presuming people read their mail in Emacs, we could adopt a convention of
using the variable name EMACSSRCROOT (or something like that) so that those
who set that environment variable can use ‘find-file-at-point’.

E.g., in ~/.emacs, i have:

  (setenv "EMACSSRCROOT" "~/build/GNU/emacs")

and now i can (even in this buffer), use ‘M-x find-file-at-point’ on

  $EMACSSRCROOT/etc/themes

to visit that directory (in Dired mode).

Of course, Emacs already supports finding its source files (as part of
preparing the decoration in the *Help* buffer); this is a simpler idea
potentially useful in many more contexts.