Re: running emacs without installing

[Kin Cho]

Kai,

Thanks for the pointers, but I still couldn't get it to work.

I set EMACSDATA to the value of data-directory on machine Y (with
normal emacs installation) relative to machine X, and EMACSPATH
to point at the site-lisp dir relative to machine X.

Warning: arch-dependent data dir 
(/usr/local/libexec/emacs/21.3/i686-pc-linux-gnu/) does not exist.
Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/21.3/site-lisp' does not exist.
Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp' does not exist.
Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/21.3/leim' does not exist.
Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/21.3/lisp' does not exist.
Cannot open load file: term/x-win

I see this string _EMACS_INTERNAL in the emacs executable, but
don't see documentation for it.  Could this be used somehow?

-kin

Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> writes:

> Kin Cho <ignore-this-prefixkin@techie.com> writes:
>
>> I want to avoid the softlink on machine X.  Are there environment
>> variables to tell emacs where to find the data and lisp dirs?
>
> Yes.  EMACS_DATA and friends.  C-h i d m Emacs RET enters the Emacs
> info file, m Environment RET goes to the right spot.  (You still have
> to choose the first menu item, though.)
>
> Kai