From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: readable-not-found
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2022 19:47:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14725738-73fc-904b-20e0-50f92ba34034@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mthziagp.fsf@zoho.eu>
Am 09.03.22 um 13:20 schrieb Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU
Emacs text editor:
> Andreas Röhler wrote:
>
>> Have the following load-test.el in some ~/testdir/ :
>>
>> (if (file-readable-p "../test.el")
>> (load "../test.el" nil t))
> (defun load-if-exists (file)
> (if (file-exists-p file)
> (load-file file)
> (message "The file %s does not exist." file) ))
>
Didn't use load-file, as assumed designed for interactive use.
When looking into its definition, it's expand-file-name which does it:
(load (expand-file-name "../test.el") nil t)
Thanks all!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-09 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-09 11:23 readable-not-found Andreas Röhler
2022-03-09 11:51 ` readable-not-found tomas
2022-03-09 12:20 ` readable-not-found Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-09 18:47 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2022-03-09 19:22 ` readable-not-found Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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