Finding the Emacs site-lisp directory
I am trying to make my Emacs configuration file written for OS X work on Ubuntu. I have this line:
开发者_StackOverflow社区(add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/23.3/share/emacs/site-lisp/w3m")
It is used to load emacs-w3m. On OS X I installed Emacs using Homebrew, thus it is in /usr/local/Cellar/.The site-lisp directory on Ubuntu is in a different place. How can I write this line in a way that will work on both operating systems? Is there an Emacs Lisp function to retrieve the site-lisp directory?
No, there's no way. The site-lisp directory is a convention and only its existence not its path is agreed on.
Either you set a symbolic link on your Mac/Ubuntu or you use a system switch:
(defconst my-lisp-dir (cond
((equal system-type 'gnu/linux) "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/")
((equal system-type 'darwin) (concat "/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/" (number-to-string emacs-major-version) "." (number-to-string emacs-minor-version) "/share/emacs/site-lisp/"))
(t (concat "/usr/local/emacs/site-lisp/")))
and then
(add-to-list 'load-path (concat my-lisp-dir "w3m"))
I tried this on my Windows Emacs (23.4.1) and Mac OS Emacs (23.4.1) for my other add-on and it worked.
(concat (car load-path) "/w3m")
Usually, the load-path has the site-lisp as the first item in the list.
Create a subdirs.el
file in your site-lisp directory which does (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "w3m" (file-name-directory load-file-name)))
.
This said, you can also just place your w3m directory anywhere you like, so you don't have to worry about where is site-lisp but only where is w3m.
site-lisp
is intended for making libraries available to all users on a given system, and so would be managed on a per-system basis.
If you are just trying to manage your own config consistently across servers, don't put things in site-lisp
; put them under a sub-directory of your user directory, such as ~/.emacs.d/lisp/
and then use:
(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/lisp/w3m"))
If you do want to query your load-path
for a "site-lisp" directory (or those which look like one), you can do this:
(remove-if-not
(lambda (path) (string-match-p "/site-lisp\\'" path))
load-path)
(but Stefan's answer is best if you really want to keep things in site-lisp
)
For some reason (see below) I wanted to set package-user-dir
(ELPA) to the site-lisp-directory.
It should be possible to deduce the site-lisp-directory from the standard exec-directory
variable:
(setq site-lisp-directory (concat exec-directory "../site-lisp")
At least with the precompiled Emacs-versions from GNU this works (the directory already exists). Eventually create the directory:
(unless (file-accessible-directory-p site-lisp-directory)
(make-directory site-lisp-directory))
My motivation was that package-user-dir
by default is %USERPROFILE%/.emacs.d/elpa/
, which seems to be a rather strange location. Packages shall be installed system-wide for all users. Also ~/.emacs.d
contains server settings, auto-save-lists and backups. What have packages to do there when Emacs has a dedicated site-lisp-directory one can ask.
However, the real "problem" was the precompiled Emacs 24.3 for Windows. It requires no installation and hence can be run portably, like from a stick. IMHO ELPA should then use its site-lisp-directory, so that the packages are installed portably too.
If you are using Emacs 23 you can use the following:
(concat user-emacs-directory
(convert-standard-filename "site-lisp/"))
However, this will only find the "default" location for user-installed lisp files.
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