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Re: source-directory, installed Emacs, and C source
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Manuel Giraud |
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Re: source-directory, installed Emacs, and C source |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Oct 2023 21:07:16 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
[...]
>> I think I may have a use case: if you are working *on* Emacs
>> development. I kind of know when my current running Emacs is in sync
>> with its source directory. So if I want to work on some feature it is
>> easier to jump directly files into the source directory and start
>> modifying those files. This way those modifications are directly
>> tracked by git in preparation of a future patch.
>
> If you are working on developing Emacs, why do you install the
> development version? The usual paradigm in that case is to run Emacs
> from the source tree, uninstalled. This is supported since about
> forever.
But, as I said, I could be doing it wrong ;-) Thanks for enlightening
me. I will look into how to run Emacs uninstalled.
--
Manuel Giraud
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