Re: source-directory, installed Emacs, and C source

[Manuel Giraud]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

[...]

> There's no such "consistency" in Emacs.  The "consistency" we support
> is that the Lisp files are expected to be in the installed tree.  If
> they are there, I see no reason to look for them in any other
> directory, and you didn't provide any real reason.  I originally
> thought that you want to remove the *.el files from the installation
> tree, but now I understand you don't, and I'm therefore completely
> baffled about the your feature request.

I think I may have a use case: if you are working *on* Emacs
development.  I kind of know when my current running Emacs is in sync
with its source directory.  So if I want to work on some feature it is
easier to jump directly files into the source directory and start
modifying those files.  This way those modifications are directly
tracked by git in preparation of a future patch.

But maybe I'm just doing it wrong.
-- 
Manuel Giraud