From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs Package Loading & .emacs ?? Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 09:43:52 +0200 Organization: Arcor Message-ID: <82fvlysthj.fsf@web.de> References: <86bnwnkm5d.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396251933 17882 80.91.229.3 (31 Mar 2014 07:45:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 07:45:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 31 09:45:22 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WUWuH-0001Y3-SJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 09:45:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47477 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WUWuH-0003r6-Cz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 03:45:21 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.ecp.fr!news.muarf.org!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TQYe3oPmU3TW2DGpD0c8UaTfqxo= Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Mar 2014 09:43:53 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 46024976.newsspool2.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=O3GA1B_0>QF2NY@MLMVGF9_`On\OOfI; J`kmINABMdk; XSi?6G_oHF]]1bjGI Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:204608 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96877 Archived-At: David Masterson writes: > I used the Emacs package menu to install the latest version of Org > (8.2.5h). It installed it into ~/.emacs.d/elpa as you would expect. > Now, I'm trying to initialize Org and make proper use of it, but it > appears that the new Org package is not initializing right and, instead, > I am picking up the one that came with Emacs 24.3 as describe-variable > on org-version reports 7.9.3f. Yet, I see the new Org's directory on > the load-path, so something ran. > > Can someone explain the package loading process? In particular, I get > the sense that the new package is added to the load-path *after* my > .emacs is loaded. If that is true, what is the proper way to make use > of the new package as adding (require 'org) to my .emacs will pick up > the original Org and not the installed package? Should I physically > delete the original Org module that came with Emacs? Hi, uninstall the old version ? runs the command package-menu-mark-delete, which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `package.el'. It is bound to d, . (package-menu-mark-delete &optional NUM) Mark a package for deletion and move to the next line. Martin