RE: [h-e-w] optimal directory structure?

[Underwood, Jonathan]

I tend to install everything under C:\Emacs ... so currently i have
C:\Emacs\emacs-21.2 where the current distribution sits, and then have
c:\Emacs\site-lisp for all my local lisp stuff. This makes it easy to
upgrade and have multiple versions of emacs eg. c:\Emacs\emacs-21.1 and
c:\Emacs\emacs-21.2 etc etc using the same local lisp. To add a directory to
your load path, stick the following sort of thing in your .emacs

(setq load-path (append (list "c:/emacs/site-lisp/") load-path)

This won't recurse directories though, so you need to add each one below
site-lisp yourself. 

jonathan.

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> From: Chris Lott [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: June 3, 2002 1:14 PM
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> Subject: [h-e-w] optimal directory structure?
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> How do you have your windows emacs setup as far as directory
> structure and HOME environment variable. 
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> Until now I have had emacs installed to c:\gnu\emacs  and had my
> $HOME variable set to the same directory. I installed all
> software to c:\gnu\emacs\site-lisp
> 
> Now I am beginning to think that it would make more sense (for
> upgrading purposes), to have a completely separate home
> directory (say c:\home) and have my site-lisp files be OUTSIDE
> of the emacs directory, so I would have:
> 
> c:\gnu\site-lisp
> c:\gnu\emacs\bin
> c:\gnu\emacs\lisp
> 
> Then I could install a new emacs version and not have to move or
> copy anything in my local lisp (site-lisp) directory, right? Is
> there a way to tell emacs where the new site-lisp directory is
> and have it pick up all the subdirectories?
> 
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