Re: automating %load-path

[Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <tosi@stekt.oulu.fi>]

Keisuke Nishida <kxn30@po.cwru.edu> writes:

> I think it is more convenient to set the path explicitly in the init file
> than to specify it with the configure program, unless we automatically
> install all scheme programs in that directory and most users are just to
> use them.  Should we really do this right now?

If users add their own Scheme files in different directories,
they still can alter %load-path in their .emacs.scm.  I think
this would be a step in the right direction.  I would also like
automatic installation, but that may be a little difficult to
implement.  The easiest way might be to put the Scheme files
under src/emacs-20.6 too.

> (I personally add the local cvs directory to %load-path, so I don't need
> to install scheme files.)

(I personally make ${prefix}/share/emacs/20.5/scheme a symlink to
the local CVS directory.)

> Could you write some documentation, especially NEWS file as a
> function introduction for that?

I'll write a NEWS file based on ChangeLog and recent mails.
What other documentation do you have in mind: a complete manual
in Texinfo?  I'm not sure I could manage that.