Peter Seibel peter@gigamonkeys.com writes:
"Marco Baringer" mb@bese.it writes:
Peter Seibel peter@gigamonkeys.com writes:
Or another way to achieve my goal, is to have swank-loader load a file, site-swank.lisp if it exists and to define a variable which will turn off loading of the user-init-file. Then I can build a site-swank.lisp that does the initialization I need for Lispbox and then disable loading of the users .swank.lisp. (I want to do this because the whole point of my Lispbox distro is to provide a stable a predictable environment.
i'm confused, why don't you just edit the swank-loader.lisp you distribute with lisp in a box? would this change provide some benefit other than making lisp in a box easier to build?
Well, if I can make one small change to swank-loader.lisp that can accomodate this kind of customization and it gets folded into the mainline then I don't have to track further changes to swank-loader.lisp. While I may be the only one who needs to customize SLIME in this way at the moment it's not a particularly Lispbox specific change--I'm just making it possible for anyone installing SLIME to customize where it looks for .swank.lisp while leaving the default behavior to look in the user's home dir.
ok, that makes sense, would this work? it loads the file site-init.lisp if it exists, otherwise it loads .swank.lisp. if you provide a site-init.lisp its up to you, as the all-knowing all-seeing sysop, to load the user's init-files by calling (swank-loader:load-user-init-file).