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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 11:15:08 GMT
- From: djh@CIS.Prime.COM (David Hughes)
- Message-ID: <9211101115.AA26037@CIS.Prime.COM>
- Subject: Re: automatic load-path generation
- Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.bug
- Path: sparky!uunet!wendy-fate.uu.net!bug-lucid-emacs
- Sender: bug-lucid-emacs-request@lucid.com
- Lines: 33
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- Excerpt of message (sent 9 November 92) by Jamie Zawinski:
- > To use the startup.el that I recently sent out, you need to add the
- > following forms to the front of it.
- >
- > I'd really appreciate some feedback (positive or negative) on whether this
- > startup code does what you need, because otherwise I'm going to put it in
- > 19.4 and get a lot of complaints if it has missed the mark again...
-
-
- Jamie -
-
- I had just finished getting gdb-4.7 off the net to test the bug I described
- to you yesterday, when your patch arrived. This allowed lemacs to build and
- start without a hitch.
-
- This new startup is a big win (for us anyway) for a couple of reasons:
-
- 1. About half the Emacs users on my site are complete luddites and insist
- on sticking with emacs-18.55 (God, how old is that??). As a consequence,
- their lisp dir was really fouling things up for lemacs19 users (Our site
- manager insists that all "non Sun standard" tools have to be installed in
- one tools area.) Your searching for "lisp/prim" has cured that.
-
- 2. To avoid messing people up, I actually dump lemacs in one place and
- provide a soft link to the site-wide place, so that I can install new
- versions without crashing anyone. Previously, the startup.el was not
- too smart in chasing the symbolic link, and I therefore had a nasty
- kludge to get round that. Again, this new startup.el has cured this.
-
- Thanks.
-
- --
- Regards, David
-