Re: find-function vs. Windows paths

Stephen J. Turnbull writes: > If people would only build from source and run-in-place this > wouldn't be a problem. ;-) Yah. I suspect that's what a lot of people on this list do. I haven't typed "make install" at an Emacs distribution in 15 years. Too scary. Fifteen years ago when I typed "make install" Emacs sprayed files everywhere. Because of this, figuring out how to uninstall an old version was hard. Once running in place fom a source tree became an option I never looked back. Uninstalling a source tree is easy. > One sensible way to handle this is to add a SEARCH-LOAD-PATH-TOO flag > to `find-library' and `locate-library', if it's nil have them warn > "library source not found, probably dumped into XEmacs? use prefix > arg to search path" on not found, and if non-nil search for the > library on the path. I would prefer those semantics (rather than > defaulting to searching load-path) to reduce the incidence of the FAQ, > but maybe I'm just a worry-wart. If "make install" is what we expect people to do, then the wiping load-history and searching load-path should be the default action.