From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Cc: emacs-devel@acm.muc.de
Subject: Re: "load-file" surreptitiously pushes directories onto load-path.
Date: 9 Apr 2007 12:16:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070409110222.GB1065@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17946.90.547705.72200@farnswood.snap.net.nz>
Hi, Nick!
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:59:06PM +1200, Nick Roberts wrote:
> > Start a modern Emacs with
> > # emacs -Q
> > In *scratch*, do
> > C-u M-: load-path
> > Follow this up with
> > M-x load-file ~/cc-mode-5.31.n/tests/000tests.elc
> > and repeat
> > C-u M-: load-path
> > It will be seen that load-file has pushed the element
> > "/home/acm/cc-mode-5.31.n" onto the front of load-path. This is surely
> > a bug. And even if it's not, it ought to be!
> I suspect that 000tests.elc does this, not load-file.
Yes, that's exactly it. Thanks for the help.
Sorry for wasting everybody's time.
> Nick
--
Alan.
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