Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to make a plea for a new lisp-level variable > `site-lisp-directory' similar to `data-directory' and > `exec-directory'. In my AUCTeX tex-site.el I now have: > > (defvar TeX-lisp-directory > "/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/site-lisp/auctex" ... > > I would prefer the location-independent: > > (expand-file-name "auctex" site-lisp-directory) > > Of course it is possible to say: > (defvar site-lisp-directory (expand-file-name "../site-lisp" > data-directory)) but I think it is cleaner if this is setup by the > initialization code.
Hold your horses. I am right now overhauling the installation procedure of AUCTeX, and indeed it will make TeX-lisp-directory (and other stuff) typically be set to a relative path location (namely something like (expand-file-name "something" (file-name-directory load-file-name)) This is more a problem of the installation procedure of AUCTeX rather than Emacs. And it can't be solved by Emacs, anyway: packages delivered by your OS distribution vendor will be placed in a directory different (and later in load-path) than packages installed per-site. Having a "site-lisp-directory" in the manner you envision would mean that one could not have AUCTeX working _both_ when installed by the OS installation procedures _as well_ as as part of the site-local installations (probably with a newer version). I don't think there is much within Emacs itself that can be provided and result in consistently being of help here. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
