Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> writes: > Then the question is what to do about init.el. The file is quite short > [3]. My ideas: > > 1. add the (patched) init.el to /usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp and suggest > in Readme.Debian that the user replace their ~/.emacs.d/init.el with a > `load-file' call to the Debian spacemacs-init.el. > > 2. put the whole (patched) init.el in Readme.Debian and suggest the user > put it in their home directory > > 3. provide a shell script spacemacs-activate which does (1) or (2), > perhaps backing up/restoring an existing ~/.emacs.d/init.el > > Since I'm new to Debian packaging I'd like to get feedback on these > alternatives before proceeding.
What about a script called spacemacs that runs something like emacs --no-init-file --load /usr/share/emacs/.../spacemacs-init.el If that worked, then people could switch easily between emacs and spacemacs, which feels kindof important to me. Again assuming it works, we could also try to upstream such a script, to reduce the clash between debian and other systems d
