Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2021 14:33:48 -0400
> 
> On a typical install Emacs takes you to the .el.gz, not to the .el in the 
> original repo

Why is that a problem for you?  M-. takes you to the code you are
actually running, whereas the files in Git could have been modified
meanwhile, and are no longer the code your installed Emacs runs.

But if it _is_ a problem, for some reason, the solution is a two-step
dance:

  . run 'etags' to produce TAGS that names the *.el files in the Git
    checkout where you want to go

  . configure Xref to use etags for ELisp files (instead of the
    built-in ELisp backend)