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Re: source-directory, installed Emacs, and C source
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Spencer Baugh |
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Re: source-directory, installed Emacs, and C source |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Oct 2023 11:13:33 -0400 |
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: sbaugh@catern.com
>> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:31:49 -0400
>>
>> - Jumping to a newer function definition is not a problem.
>>
>> So we can do it for Lisp too. We can do that by having Emacs jump to
>> Lisp source files from source-directory, too, if they exist.
>> (Possibly as an option off by default, if people would prefer that)
>>
>> This would be a great improvement for users who keep source-directory
>> around (since now Emacs jumps straight to your source repo, allowing
>> easy modifications, and also you can skip installing Lisp source files
>> with Emacs) and status quo for users that don't keep source-directory
>> around.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> I'm interested in implementing one of these two options, since I want to
>> be able to reliably jump to function definitions from an installed
>> Emacs. I don't care which of the two we go with.
>
> Why would the Lisp sources not be available where Emacs installs them,
> i.e. in the /usr/share tree?
If the user ./configure'd Emacs to not install them because they prefer
to jump to source-directory instead. That's what I meant by:
>This would be a great improvement for users who keep source-directory
>around (since now Emacs jumps straight to your source repo, allowing
>easy modifications, and also you can skip installing Lisp source files
>with Emacs)
- source-directory, installed Emacs, and C source, sbaugh, 2023/10/24
- Re: source-directory, installed Emacs, and C source, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/10/24
- Re: source-directory, installed Emacs, and C source,
Spencer Baugh <=
- Re: source-directory, installed Emacs, and C source, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/10/24
- Re: source-directory, installed Emacs, and C source, sbaugh, 2023/10/24
- Re: source-directory, installed Emacs, and C source, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/10/24
- Re: source-directory, installed Emacs, and C source, Manuel Giraud, 2023/10/25
- Re: source-directory, installed Emacs, and C source, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/10/25
- Re: source-directory, installed Emacs, and C source, Manuel Giraud, 2023/10/25
- Re: source-directory, installed Emacs, and C source, sbaugh, 2023/10/25
- Re: source-directory, installed Emacs, and C source, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/10/25
- Re: source-directory, installed Emacs, and C source, sbaugh, 2023/10/25
- Re: source-directory, installed Emacs, and C source, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/10/25