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- From: dave@gctech.co.jp (Dave)
- Subject: Organizing the .../emacs/lisp directory?
- Message-ID: <DAVE.93Jan5075525@gctgw.gctech.co.jp>
- Sender: news@gctech.co.jp
- Organization: GC Technology
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:55:25 GMT
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- I periodically install and modify files in my /usr/local/lib/emacs/lisp/
- directory. I get really tired of wading through the billions of files
- there. Maybe I'm anal retentive, but I have this fear of directories that
- take more than a screen to print out.
-
- I would like to organize the directory contents into a set of
- sub-directories, setting the load-path variable to include each of the
- sub-directories by default at loadup time. I have two problems:
-
- 1) I can't set load-path with default.el or .emacs until after
- emacs tries to load in some files under /usr/local/lib/emacs/lisp.
- Therefore, I cannot file those files into a sub-directory, because they
- won't be found. Do I have to re-compile emacs to include the
- sub-directories in load-path from the very beginning?
-
- 2) I want to be able to edit the sub-directories, adding them and
- removing them, without recompiling emacs or editing the default.el file
- every time. I have defined a function that sets load-path to all the
- directories currently under .../emacs/lisp, but it takes too long to run.
- Is there a fast, smart way to do this?
-
- TIA,
- Dave
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- David Wuertele, GC Technologies, Algorithm Research
- dave@gctech.co.jp dave@windsor.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
-