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Re: Issue with .emacs, files not loading
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Sven Joachim |
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Re: Issue with .emacs, files not loading |
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Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:16:09 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
On 2008-06-03 23:40 +0200, Colin S. Miller wrote:
> From the variable's documentation
>
> *List of directories to search for files to load.
> Each element is a string (directory name) or nil (try default directory).
>
> Note that the elements of this list *may not* begin with "~", so you must
> call `expand-file-name' on them before adding them to this list.
Where did you get that? Here it says:
,----
| *List of directories to search for files to load.
| Each element is a string (directory name) or nil (try default directory).
| Initialized based on EMACSLOADPATH environment variable, if any,
| otherwise to default specified by file `epaths.h' when Emacs was built.
`----
No mention of expand-file-name.
> You need to expand your paths before adding them to load-path.
Huh? I have
(setq load-path (append (list "~/elisp") load-path))
in my .emacs since ages, and that has always worked.
> I can't see where you are calling (load-library) to load
> my-custom-generic.el.
That's a valid point, at last.
Sven