Re: load-path hack; local overlay for system lisp



Am Freitag, den 18.09.2009, 21:06 +0900 schrieb Teika Kazura:
> ¡Hola, I'm so glad to hear from you again, GSR!
> 
> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:42:07 +0200, GSR - FR wrote:
> > Hi,
> > teika lavabit com (2009-09-14 at 1406.16 +0900):
> >> Hi. Let me send a hack (not yet a patch to go into trunk) to fix
> >> 'load-path'. With this, your ~/.sawfish/lisp/sawfish/wm.jl, or
> >> whatever, will be preferred over /usr/share/sawfish/..../wm.jl Or, you
> >> can choose one with SAWFISH_USER_LISP_DIR.
> > 
> > I thought Sawfish had been doing that for ages.[...]
> > Could you explain what is the difference with what I am seeing here?
> 
> In fact, some files under ~/.sawfish/lisp indeed takes precedence over
> those in "system" dir, /usr/share/sawfish. But many core files don't.
> 
> Let me review the init procedure of sawfish. From rough observation,
> in inner_main() in src/main.c, sawfish.wm.misc, sawfish.wm.cursors,
> and sawfish.wm are read, in this order. But at this point, only system
> lisp dir is enrolled in load_path. User lisp dir is set into load_path
> in lisp/sawfish/wm.jl, but *before* that, it requires wm.session.init
> which requires wm.windows that opens many. (cursors doesn't call
> friends. I don't know what happens by misc opening windows.subrs)
> 
> So, put load_path line in wm.jl at the top of the file, and 95% of the
> job is done. But sometimes I feel like hacking wm.jl. To override it,
> you need C part patch I submitted.
> 
> That's all.
> Teika (Teika kazura)

I see, I have been wondering, too, but actually never tried changing
those files. So once it's finished it won't be rejected.

Chris

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