[slime-devel] Re: .swank.lisp

[Peter Seibel]

"Marco Baringer" <mb at bese.it> writes:

> Peter Seibel <peter at gigamonkeys.com> writes:
>
>> "Marco Baringer" <mb at bese.it> writes:
>>
>>> Peter Seibel <peter at 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).

Yup. That'd do the trick.

-Peter

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Peter Seibel                                     peter at gigamonkeys.com

         Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp