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Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: adventures with --prefix, TeX-data-directory and
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David Kastrup |
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Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: adventures with --prefix, TeX-data-directory and style files |
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Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:37:05 +0200 |
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Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
> * Phillip Lord (2008-09-04) writes:
>
>> Can I suggest an update to the "Installation for the non-privilleged user"
>> section. It says....
>
> ,----[ (info "(auctex)Advice for non-privileged users") ]
> | You'll have to add something like
> | `/home/myself/share/emacs/site-lisp' to your `load-path' variable, if
> | it isn't there already.
> `----
>
> This implies that the lisp files will be installed below prefix if the
> directory exists and it is being added to `load-path'. But the
> configure script calls Emacs with -batch which implies -q.
> So if the directory is added in one's .emacs file to `load-path' the
> new value will not be picked up.
.emacs is more for the interactive configuration. load-path changes are
probably better done in default.el, and hopefully there is at least one
place in the load-path where the user can store a file like that.
> I am wondering how the above is supposed to work. Can somebody shed
> some light on this?
>
> Perhaps we really have to suggest to specify both --prefix and
> --with-lispdir?
It might be worth experimenting with this and giving a recommendation
based on the results.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- [AUCTeX-devel] adventures with --prefix, TeX-data-directory and style files, Phillip Lord, 2008/09/01
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] adventures with --prefix, TeX-data-directory and style files, Ralf Angeli, 2008/09/02
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- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] adventures with --prefix, TeX-data-directory and style files, Phillip Lord, 2008/09/03
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] adventures with --prefix, TeX-data-directory and style files, Ralf Angeli, 2008/09/03
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- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] adventures with --prefix, TeX-data-directory and style files, Phillip Lord, 2008/09/03
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] adventures with --prefix, TeX-data-directory and style files, Ralf Angeli, 2008/09/03
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- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] adventures with --prefix, TeX-data-directory and style files, Phillip Lord, 2008/09/04
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] adventures with --prefix, TeX-data-directory and style files, David Kastrup, 2008/09/04
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- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] adventures with --prefix, TeX-data-directory and style files, Phillip Lord, 2008/09/04
- [AUCTeX-devel] Re: adventures with --prefix, TeX-data-directory and style files, Ralf Angeli, 2008/09/06
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: adventures with --prefix, TeX-data-directory and style files,
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