[7276] in Athena Bugs
consider this a bug in (or suggestion for) emacs...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Mar 11 16:58:04 1991
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 91 16:57:53 -0500
From: Ken Raeburn <Raeburn@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
I glanced at the C code and saw no way for a package to determine the
pathname it came from. There are times (like this) when it is
desirable....
(Context: discuss.el needs to run another program in a subprocess; the
program is found in one of two places, depending on where the elisp
code is used from. One is an experimental version, the other a
released version; they do have to (each) find the correct executable.)
Subject: Re: load paths in emacs discuss
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 91 14:41:54 -0500
From: Mark W. Eichin <eichin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bug-discuss@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Agreed, it was clumsy (ie. it wasn't me :-) It's really to bad noone's
come up with a good way to install emacs scripts automatically (or
better yet, have a "pathname package came from" function!) so that the
*one* variable that gets changed (for the 3 places they get installed)
gets done right.
_Mark_
