On 2010-06-30 18:38, Chris BROWN wrote:
My question is: Is it possible to allow the emacs/vim scripts that I have know where this directory is automatically?
Maybe you could adapt the approach taken by Agda. Agda's Emacs mode is installed using Cabal plus a small script: 1) The Emacs Lisp sources are installed as data files, using Cabal. 2) A small program called agda-mode is compiled and installed, using Cabal. 3) If the user runs "agda-mode setup", then the following code is copied into the user's .emacs (unless it is already there): (load-file (let ((coding-system-for-read 'utf-8)) (shell-command-to-string "agda-mode locate"))) The .emacs file is found by querying Emacs. 4) The command "agda-mode locate" prints out the path to a file which sets up the Agda mode (using the Paths_<package name> module). Note that if a newer version of Agda is installed, then Emacs will (after being restarted) automatically make use of the new version of the Agda mode. The source of agda-mode can be found in Agda's darcs repository: http://code.haskell.org/Agda/src/agda-mode/Main.hs -- /NAD