Re: relative load-file

[Rocky Bernstein <rocky@gnu.org>]

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On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>wrote:

> Rocky Bernstein <rocky@gnu.org> writes:
>
> Hi Rocky!
>
> > For developing multi-file emacs packages, it would be helpful to have
> > something akin to require-relative in Ruby 1.9. That is, one wants to
> > load an Emacs Lisp file relative the file that issues the load which
> > is often in the same directory or a nearby directory.
>
> `load-file' accepts relative paths.
>
> Let's say your project looks like
>
>      foo/foo.el
>      foo/misc/foo-misc.el
>
> then a (load-file "misc/foo-misc.el") in foo.el should work.
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
>

I don't see that this does what I need or meant to convey:
   one wants to load an Emacs Lisp file *relative [to] the* *[directory of
the]* *file that issues the load *

Here my test of the above suggestion..

$ find /tmp/proj -type f -print -exec cat {} \;
/tmp/proj/subdir/subload.el
       (load-file "../test1.el")
/tmp/proj/test1.el
      (load-file "test3.el")
/tmp/proj/test3.el
       (message "test3 here")

Now inside emacs I edit /tmp/proj/subdir/subload.el, and M-x
eval-current-buffer. I get:

load-file: Cannot open load file: /tmp/proj/subdir/test3.el

This is loading relative to the directory I started at, /tmp/proj/subdir,
not relative to the directory that of the file that issued the load,
/tmp/proj/test1.el.

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