Re: Two silly XEmacs questions
>>>> "sb" == SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org>
writes:
sb> Michael Sperber <sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes in
xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
>>>>>> "sb" == SL Baur
<steve(a)xemacs.org> writes:
sb> The way is to put together a custom
dumped-lisp.el somewhere in the
sb> load-path. It should work for the file to be in site-lisp/ if
sb> site-lisp is configured into your XEmacs, or into the
sb> xemacs-packages/lisp/ directory.
> Ermh, not exactly. The current loadup code specifically looks
for
> dumped-lisp files in packages and in the core Lisp directory. It
> doesn't generally swallow every dumped-lisp file in the load path.
sb> Not picking up a dumped-lisp.el site-lisp/ is fine. That could
sb> lead to unexpected behavior. Does it also not pick up dumped-lisp
sb> from xemacs-packages/lisp/? That's inconvenient -- it's the only
sb> place we're essentially guaranteeing won't be overwritten by a
sb> dumped-lisp.el in a package.
Since this is conceptually a toplevel thing going on, isn't that what
site-load.el should do? (I do agree it's a stupid name, but it's been
there for ages.)
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