Idea: make it easy to install local additions in emacs

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From: Dan_Jacobson
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1991 08:32

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Perhaps GNU Emacs should come with a empty local lisp directory (on
load-path (somewhere)), and an info item [might be a dumb idea:]
* Local:    (local).         Additional Manuals Locally Installed

This is so administrators could easily move their local GNU Emacs
add-ons to a new emacs version during a emacs upgrade.

Here is sort of the structure we've been using to try to separate the
official GNU Emacs stuff from the accumulated other lisp packages,
etc.  (Not especially the best hierarchy.)

        \__bin
        |__lib___
                 \__gnuemacs
                          \
                          |__dist__
                          |        \__etc
                          |        |__info
                          |        |__lisp__
                          |                 \__term
                          |__local_
                                   \__etc
                                   |__lisp__
                                   |        \__term
                                   |__tips

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