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Re: why is site-lisp placed before the default load path?


From: Clément Pit--Claudel
Subject: Re: why is site-lisp placed before the default load path?
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 20:25:49 -0400
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On 2016-08-01 13:54, Robert Weiner wrote:
>> realgud is just an example.  It uses names like js.el and info.el
>> because they are supposed to be loaded via `load-relative`, rather
>> than required directly, but subdirs.el placing them at the front of
>> the load path is what's causing trouble.
> 
> Given all the existing tools that look for Elisp files by filename,
> find-library being just one, it is not a good assumption that the
> filename will always be uniquely identified by adding a directory
> name.

I'm not sure about this. The only bit of code that is supposed to load these 
internal files loads them using an absolute path, so that assumption if fine 
AFAICT.

>> Rocky could add 'realgud-' to the beginning of every elisp file in
>> the application,
>  
> ​That would be much better and safer and more generally useful.

Can you explain why?

Thanks!
Clément.

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