Luke Gorrie luke@bluetail.com writes:
Helmut Eller e9626484@stud3.tuwien.ac.at writes:
Where should install we SLIME by default? A writable directory would be the easiest for us; not sure if distributors like that.
I hacked swank-loader.lisp to put the fasl files in ~/.slime/fasl/ (on Win32 it's _slime instead). This way we can install in a read-only directory. Sound okay?
I use Win32 and have plenty of directories in my home directory that start with "dot". There's no reason to make a special exception for Win32 - I would prefer to have the directory name be the same for both Win32 and non-Win32 installs. Another advantage is that, in Emacs, you can elect to not have your dot directories displayed in dired buffers. This is my preference for the fasl directories as I don't normally want to drill down into them.
- Bill
Bill_Clementson@peoplesoft.com writes:
I use Win32 and have plenty of directories in my home directory that start with "dot". There's no reason to make a special exception for Win32
Sounds good to me. But it begs the question: why are we already making an exception of ~/_swank.lsp vs. ~/.swank.lisp for the init file? Anyone?
Bill, is there some code we can snarf from your blog to make installation on Win32 easier? We should at least fold your instructions into the manual.
Luke Gorrie luke@bluetail.com writes:
Sounds good to me. But it begs the question: why are we already making an exception of ~/_swank.lsp vs. ~/.swank.lisp for the init file? Anyone?
That's probably my fault. I just did it because I was under the wrong the impression that .emacs is _emacs under Windows.
Helmut.
Helmut Eller e9626484@stud3.tuwien.ac.at writes:
Luke Gorrie luke@bluetail.com writes:
Sounds good to me. But it begs the question: why are we already making an exception of ~/_swank.lsp vs. ~/.swank.lisp for the init file? Anyone?
That's probably my fault. I just did it because I was under the wrong the impression that .emacs is _emacs under Windows.
I've removed the conditionalization from swank-loader.lisp. Win32 users will need to rename their init file from ~/_swank.lsp to ~/.swank.lisp, and please let us know if this breaks anything.
Bill_Clementson@peoplesoft.com writes:
I use Win32 and have plenty of directories in my home directory that start with "dot".
For the record, when we speak of Win32 here, do we also include Cygwin in the set, or do we consider Cygwin to stand apart from Win32?
I ask because Cygwin requires none of these Windows-specific path workarounds, and I'd rather not deal with special cases like the dot-to-underscore translation if they're not necessary on my system.
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