Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:36:59 +0100 Dimitri Fontaine <address@hidden> wrote: 

DF> The idea we're talking about here is to have a simpler way to enable a
DF> piece of elisp code that you fetch from somewhere (mail attachment,
DF> emacswiki, some blog, an automatic installer, etc).  I don't see how
DF> much simpler we can go than "save the content in a <file>.el in
DF> ~/.emacs.d/load.d, then either restart Emacs or M-x reload-user-dir".
DF> And for automatic installers, the location is known to be `user-load-dir'.

DF> I see people that want the feature too, some have already written some
DF> version of it, some are sending new implementation, so I think there's a
DF> need to cover here.  That you don't share the need is fine, you just
DF> won't use the feature, and maybe even explicitly

DF>   (setq user-load-dir nil)

On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:01:38 +0100 Jan Djärv <address@hidden> wrote: 

JD> I can make an load-dir feature in .emacs too.  It is having this in
JD> emacs core, working without extra user work that is the point.

I think it's clear there's quite a few users who want the load-dir
feature for various reasons.  The URLs I posted show that it's been
needed for a while now although no one thought to add it to Emacs.
package.el and el-get will not do what we're asking for.  As proposed
it's disabled by default so it won't matter to the users who don't want it.

I'd like to know if the maintainers have a reason NOT to put
user-load-dir in the core.  If we can proceed in the core, I'll propose
a specific patch and we can discuss that.  Otherwise I'll make it a
package in the GNU ELPA which is not as convenient but still usable.

Thanks
Ted