From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "John Conrad" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: place of .els Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 20:25:42 -0400 Message-ID: <7f270cb80605101725u59f69e3by9ee80bfb6cb234e9@mail.gmail.com> References: <87u07xzfqi.fsf@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0046110819==" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147307165 15182 80.91.229.2 (11 May 2006 00:26:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 00:26:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 11 02:26:05 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fdz0C-00034o-8p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 May 2006 02:26:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fdz0B-0006p4-H0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 May 2006 20:25:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fdyzz-0006ox-JX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 May 2006 20:25:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fdyzx-0006ol-3x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 May 2006 20:25:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fdyzw-0006oi-TN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 May 2006 20:25:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.182.185] (helo=nf-out-0910.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fdz1K-0001YS-LW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 May 2006 20:27:10 -0400 Original-Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id o63so17509nfa for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 17:25:42 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=EXcPb/DzE0D4qDNMDyv13tpjdRDNyzwzvCH+1WK/F2+bXcmicZ8H3qfDhIqqHL0cmqgi9ozaHP6ukoWfJa/oKFbeBFNBKxuyidu1g0YO1nWYt/ShbjReSf7BFAvg+FCV5jgsc11PceJsuJsi8RmgoOukNgWLevEHScD++ofNLUY= Original-Received: by 10.49.41.16 with SMTP id t16mr104349nfj; Wed, 10 May 2006 17:25:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.49.94.19 with HTTP; Wed, 10 May 2006 17:25:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87u07xzfqi.fsf@localhost.localdomain> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:34966 Archived-At: --===============0046110819== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_74682_8485797.1147307142577" ------=_Part_74682_8485797.1147307142577 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On 11 May 2006 08:17:57 +1000, Gary Wessle 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 ------=_Part_74682_8485797.1147307142577 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline

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? theload-path has lots and lots of locations, should I place it somewhere
under /usr/local/...?

I have a lisp directory in my ho= me directory where I store files like the one you're talking about. I prefe= r 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 tha= t 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 l= ocation to your load-path, add this line to your .emacs file:

(add-t= o-list 'load-path "/path/to/directory")

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

John Emerson Conrad
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