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Re: Changing site-lisp without installing it
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: Changing site-lisp without installing it |
Date: |
Thu, 03 Aug 2023 02:25:41 +0200 |
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Spencer Baugh wrote:
> I want to start using site-lisp at my site.
site = multi-user computer system, settings in site-lisp will
be shared across users.
> What would be ideal for me is this:
>
> - There is a normal, installed Emacs, with a site-lisp
> directory. My users run this and get the installed
> site-lisp directory. All normal.
>
> - I run this same Emacs binary in some way, I don't know
> how, to make it use a replacement site-lisp directory,
> instead of the installed one, so that I can hack on the
> site-lisp, without having to build a new Emacs or change
> the actual installed site-lisp directory.
>
> Now that I say all this, I guess the obvious thing to do is simply pass
>
> --no-site-lisp --directory my/local/changed/site-lisp
>
> and then hack away.
>
> But will that behave correctly? Are there any footguns there?
Many, instead just add a file to the original path with
whatever settings you wish to enforce across the realm ...
> (Does anyone actually use site-lisp? It seems a little
> under-explored [...]
Collective settings, I don't think that idea is so useful.
Whose .emacs are we gonna base it on, the "site" boss?
Maybe one can share other stuff that makes more sense ...
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