>>>>> David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (DK) wrote: >DK> 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.
>DK> Hold your horses. I am right now overhauling the installation >DK> procedure of AUCTeX, and indeed it will make TeX-lisp-directory (and >DK> other stuff) typically be set to a relative path location (namely >DK> something like >DK> (expand-file-name "something" (file-name-directory load-file-name)) >DK> This is more a problem of the installation procedure of AUCTeX rather >DK> than Emacs. It is not only AUCTeX; I just use that as an example. I have more packages installed in site-lisp and some of them require a variable set to their location or a location of one of their files. Emacs knows the site-lisp directory because it puts it in load-path, so it could easily put it in a variable also. -- Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP] Private email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
