From 9284e922915f9bd3f77632d73f7686d338347c83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam <adamdharrison@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 20:48:09 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Added in ability to specify prefix via env variable. (#1388)

---
 data/core/start.lua | 2 +-
 src/main.c          | 5 +----
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/data/core/start.lua b/data/core/start.lua
index bb10d7ef..2ad71d54 100644
--- a/data/core/start.lua
+++ b/data/core/start.lua
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ EXEDIR = EXEFILE:match("^(.+)[/\\][^/\\]+$")
 if MACOS_RESOURCES then
   DATADIR = MACOS_RESOURCES
 else
-  local prefix = EXEDIR:match("^(.+)[/\\]bin$")
+  local prefix = os.getenv('LITE_PREFIX') or EXEDIR:match("^(.+)[/\\]bin$")
   DATADIR = prefix and (prefix .. PATHSEP .. 'share' .. PATHSEP .. 'lite-xl') or (EXEDIR .. PATHSEP .. 'data')
 end
 USERDIR = (system.get_file_info(EXEDIR .. PATHSEP .. 'user') and (EXEDIR .. PATHSEP .. 'user'))
diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
index e6b5fb4d..1959e738 100644
--- a/src/main.c
+++ b/src/main.c
@@ -250,10 +250,7 @@ init_lua:
     "xpcall(function()\n"
     "  HOME = os.getenv('" LITE_OS_HOME "')\n"
     "  local exedir = EXEFILE:match('^(.*)" LITE_PATHSEP_PATTERN LITE_NONPATHSEP_PATTERN "$')\n"
-    "  local prefix = exedir:match('^(.*)" LITE_PATHSEP_PATTERN "bin$')\n"
-    "  if not HOME then\n"
-    "    HOME = exedir\n"
-    "  end\n"
+    "  local prefix = os.getenv('LITE_PREFIX') or exedir:match('^(.*)" LITE_PATHSEP_PATTERN "bin$')\n"
     "  dofile((MACOS_RESOURCES or (prefix and prefix .. '/share/lite-xl' or exedir .. '/data')) .. '/core/start.lua')\n"
     "  core = require(os.getenv('LITE_XL_RUNTIME') or 'core')\n"
     "  core.init()\n"