Re: relative load-file

[Rocky Bernstein <rocky@gnu.org>]

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On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>wrote:

> > Unfortunately this doesn't work either because load-file-name might
> > sometimes be nil.  For example
>
> Of course in the case of M-C-x or eval-buffer, it will be nil.
> If you care about that case, refine it to
>
>   (load (expand-file-name <foo> (if load-file-name
>                                     (file-name-directory load-file-name))))
>

I don't think this is quite right yet.

When load-file-name is nil,  this uses the name of default directory of
current buffer. But that's not the same as the directory of the file
containing the load-relative function.

For example, I could have eval'd a buffer that did a load-relative of a file
in a different directory. Even without this, I can change the default
directory using the cd function. And changing the default directory never
changes the file location of the file issuing load-relative.

Any other thoughts?


>
> -- Stefan
>

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