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From: "John Conrad" <john.emerson.conrad@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: place of .els
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 20:25:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7f270cb80605101725u59f69e3by9ee80bfb6cb234e9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On 11 May 2006 08:17:57 +1000, Gary Wessle <phddas@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I want to use extview.el which is not supplied by debian/testing, so I
> downloaded it and now what? where do I place it to be safe? the
> load-path has lots and lots of locations, should I place it somewhere
> under /usr/local/...?


I have a lisp directory in my home directory where I store files like the
one you're talking about. I prefer this because I backup my home directory
more carefully than /usr/local/, and it's where I put my own homemade elisp
concoctions as well as those that don't come standard with emacs.

Anyway, the point is that you're not limited to the locations that are
currently listed in your load-path variable. If you want to add a new
location to your load-path, add this line to your .emacs file:

(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/directory")

Then restart emacs (or manually reload your .emacs file) (or M-x
eval-last-sexp with point at the end of the expression) and you're new
location will be ready to serve.

John Emerson Conrad

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-11  0:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-10 22:17 place of .els Gary Wessle
2006-05-10 23:09 ` Peter Dyballa
2006-05-11  0:25 ` John Conrad [this message]
2006-05-11  1:37 ` Burton Samograd
     [not found] ` <mailman.1669.1147307148.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-05-11  3:59   ` Gary Wessle
2006-05-11  8:23     ` Tim X
2006-05-11  8:14 ` Tim X

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