Re: Not using DOC for ELisp files

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: akrl@sdf.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2021 11:16:47 -0500
> 
> >> OK, after re-reading the section a few times and rewriting it a couple
> >> more, I think I got something vaguely acceptable.
> > Thanks, I have one question: if EMACSLOADPATH is set in the
> > environment, does it affect the value of lisp-directory?
> 
> I don't know: I did not write the code that computes this directory,
> because it was already written for the purpose of making absolute the
> filenames of preloaded files in `load-history`.

So if EMACSLOADPATH is set, the lisp-directory variable will not be
currently set?

> > Should it?
> 
> Maybe/probably, but since EMACSLOADPATH is a list of directories I'm not
> sure how to make it reliable.  Maybe it should look for some
> "well-known" bundled ELisp file in EMACSLOADPATH an derive the value of
> `lisp-directory` from it?

Yes, I think so.