From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ole Andre Birkedal Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs load-path after update Date: 13 Apr 2003 10:34:57 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87d6jqbxse.fsf@online.no> References: <87znmv4ulw.fsf@online.no><87ptnr483x.fsf@online.no> <84wuhyrfj9.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050223268 24916 80.91.224.249 (13 Apr 2003 08:41:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 08:41:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 13 10:41:06 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 194d2d-0006Sv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 10:40:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 194d2O-0000bm-06 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 04:40:32 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!news4.e.nsc.no.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Home-Page: http://termos.devcave.net Original-Lines: 46 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.212.183.66 Original-X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@telenor.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 10:38:43 MEST Original-X-Trace: news4.ulv.nextra.no 1050223123 80.212.183.66 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:111929 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:8429 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:8429 kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes: > Ole Andre Birkedal writes: > > > kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes: > > > >> It's difficult to say what has happened from this description. Can > >> you given an example of a "program" that you took from the old > >> load-path and put it into the new site-lisp directory? > > > > Yes, there was very little detail about that, let me try to fill > > in on that, sorry. > > I am running gnus with mailcrypt just fine in the cvs compiled version > > of Emacs, probably because it came with it. When I installed it, it > > put gnus and mailcrypt in /usr/local/share/emacs/21.3.50/lisp, as you said. > > The program I am trying to move is ERC, the IRC client for Emacs. > > I have tried moving it into /usr/local/share/emacs/21.3.50/lisp, as well > > as /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/ with no luck. > > You should put the *.el and *.elc files into the site-lisp directory. > Do C-h v load-path RET and look if the directory > /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp is mentioned there. (In the > following, I'll assume that it is. If it isn't, there should be > another site-lisp directory mentioned there -- use that instead.) > > ERC should come with installation instructions to say what you need > to put in your init file. If you want to install things for the > whole site, then frob > /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el. (Create the file if > it doesn't exist.) If you want to install it for yourself only, edit > ~/.emacs. > > It is not enough to put *.el files in directories, you also have to > configure Emacs to actually use them. Usually, one would use > (require 'mumblefoo) for this or perhaps autoload statements. > -- > file-error; Data: (Opening input file no such file or directory ~/.signature) Wow, now it worked just fine! Thanks. I really think I did this myself, but then it didn't work. I probably didn't use (require 'erc), not sure. Anyway, thanks again. :-) -- the Termos, Ole André http://termos.devcave.net