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2976 packaging feature N/A 2008-12-19 17:57 2012-05-31 15:17
Reporter: bwalton Platform:  
Assigned To: pfelecan OS:  
Priority: normal OS Version:  
Status: closed Product Version:  
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Summary: 0002976: provide a site-start style depot for other .el providers
Description: Hi Peter,

As we discussed, it would be nice if the emacs packages provided a site-start (or similar) directory where other providers of .el/.elc files could place small elisp snippets that see things hooked into the startup of every emacs instance.

Thanks
-Ben
Steps To Reproduce:
Additional Information: As an example, the redhat emacs-git package provides this (and debian has similar hooks):

$ less /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/git-init.el
;; Git VC backend
(add-to-list 'vc-handled-backends 'GIT t)
(autoload 'git-status "git" "GIT mode." t)
(autoload 'git-blame-mode "git-blame"
  "Minor mode for incremental blame for Git." t)

The file contains the following:

$ less /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el
;;; loaded before user's ".emacs" file and default.el

;; load ".el" files in "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/" on startup
(mapc 'load
      (directory-files "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d" t "\\.el\\'"))
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Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
2008-12-19 17:57 bwalton New Issue
2009-06-01 14:45 pfelecan Project emacs_common => emacs
2009-06-01 14:45 pfelecan Status new => assigned
2009-06-01 14:45 pfelecan Assigned To => pfelecan
2009-08-23 11:09 pfelecan Note Added: 0006635
2009-08-26 09:36 pfelecan Note Added: 0006646
2009-08-26 09:36 pfelecan Status assigned => feedback
2012-05-30 11:55 pfelecan Note Added: 0009880
2012-05-30 11:55 pfelecan Status feedback => resolved
2012-05-30 11:55 pfelecan Resolution open => won't fix
2012-05-30 11:56 pfelecan Status resolved => closed
2012-05-31 09:53 pfelecan Note Added: 0009887
2012-05-31 15:17 bwalton Note Added: 0009888

Notes
(0006635)
pfelecan   
2009-08-23 11:09   
The package already contains the /opt/csw/share/emacs/site-lisp which has the role that you wish, isn't it?
(0006646)
pfelecan   
2009-08-26 09:36   
Can you read (emacs)Top:: > *Note Customization:: > Init File
in the manual, especially the paragraphs relating to the site initialization and tell me if this is not what you wish. TIA
(0009880)
pfelecan   
2012-05-30 11:55   
From my point of view, this is intrinsically available in Emacs' directory tree.
(0009887)
pfelecan   
2012-05-31 09:53   
BTW, I see that the emacs_sitestart package exists now. Consequently, this is a strong reason to not fix...
(0009888)
bwalton   
2012-05-31 15:17   
I'm not going to push hard for this since we can meet the need with the separate package. From my point of view though, it would be nice to drop the separate package and roll it directly in with the primary emacs package.

It's your call though and if you'd like to close this, that's fine with me.