Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory

[Arthur Miller]

Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel@gmail.com> writes:

> On 8/9/21 2:49 PM, dick wrote:
>> I hear you, but emacs would have to be telepathic to know that you wanted to
>> jump to your "working copy" .el's instead of the "installed copy" .el.gz's.
>
> Well, it knows not to jump to a disassembly of the Emacs binary when I ask it
> about a C function, nor to a disassembly of the .elc files that *actually* get
> loaded instead of the .el.gz, so it doesn't sound like that much more of a
> stretch to jump to the original .el files :)

If you have a 3rd party package in elpa dir in .emacs.d and some
"working git copy" elsewhere, I don't see how Emacs will know where to
jump without some additional logic you will have to code in. I don't
think it is difficult to hack it, just that it is not there by default.