Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory

[Arthur Miller]

Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel@gmail.com> writes:

> On 8/9/21 12:59 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> From: Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2021 23:13:44 -0400
>>>
>>> M-. works for C functions, so maybe it could work for Lisp functions too?
>> 
>> It already does, always did.
>
> This was a response to Dick's comment:
>
>> Aye, one of the great pleasures of running emacs directly out of the git repo
> via "src/emacs" (as opposed to the emacs produced from `make install`) is
> xref-find-definitions (M-.) NOT jumping to an .el.gz file
>
> On a typical install Emacs takes you to the .el.gz, not to the .el in the
> original repo; whereas for C files in takes you to the original repo.  That's
> what I meant by "work".

I am not sure if --without-compress-install does it also even for make
install, but yes, that is why I also run from src folder. It save time
for compressing files and for copying files over.