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Re: Another 'best' practices question ??
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Sebastian Tennant |
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Re: Another 'best' practices question ?? |
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Fri, 04 May 2007 21:24:03 +0300 |
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Quoth Robert Thorpe <rthorpe@realworldtech.com>:
> The normal procedures is to keep the regular Emacs separate from your
> customizations of it. So, usually you put modes that you have
> downloaded from elsewhere somewhere out of the way of the normal Emacs
> tree. This allows you to upgrade Emacs more simply. The normal place
> to put these modes is in "site-lisp". There are two "site-lisp"
> directories, one in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp is intended for things
> that can work on many versions of emacs. The one in /usr/share/emacs/
> 22.0.95/site-lisp is intended for things that are there for the
> benefit of that particular version of Emacs.
There's a reason these directories contain the word 'site', namely
that whatever is found in them is availble site-wide, i.e, to all the
users of your machine. Consequently adding files to these directories
requires root privileges.
If what you want to 'install' is just for your own personal use then
create a ~/elisp directory, put the source files there, and add
~/.elisp to your load-path.
> A simple mode consisting of a single .el file I would put straight
> into the site-lisp directory. If the mode consists of many files that
> would make reading the directory confusing then I'd make a new
> directory just to put the mode in. Then add that dir to the load-path
> in .emacs. Or, add a line into .emacs to load the main file of the
> mode directly rather than relying on the load-path.
>
> There are no hard-and-fast rules.
Indeed, there are not. But it's always possible to do the right
thing, or the wrong one ;-)
Sebastian
P.S. Apologies if I'm missing the point, having not read the thread
from the beginning.
- Re: Another 'best' practices question ??, (continued)
- Re: Another 'best' practices question ??, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/05/03
- Re: Another 'best' practices question ??, Christian Herenz, 2007/05/04
- Re: Another 'best' practices question ??, Tom Tromey, 2007/05/04
- Re: Another 'best' practices question ??, Sebastian Tennant, 2007/05/04
- Re: Another 'best' practices question ??, Tom Tromey, 2007/05/04
- Re: Another 'best' practices question ??, Tom Tromey, 2007/05/04
- Re: Another 'best' practices question ??, Sebastian Tennant, 2007/05/04
- Re: Another 'best' practices question ??, Tom Tromey, 2007/05/04
- Re: Another 'best' practices question ??, Sebastian Tennant, 2007/05/04
Re: Another 'best' practices question ??, Robert Thorpe, 2007/05/04