Load .el files from $HOME/ directory?

Load .el files from $HOME/ directory?

[Garry Heaton]

When working with Emacs via telnet I can load my '.emacs' file but can't
access '/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/'. I would like to run
'html-helperl-mode.el' within a telnet session so is there anything I can
add to my '.emacs' to tell it to load 'html-helper-mode.el' from $HOME/ ?

Garry Heaton

Re: Load .el files from $HOME/ directory?

[Kai Großjohann]

Garry Heaton <none@none.com> writes:

> When working with Emacs via telnet I can load my '.emacs' file but can't
> access '/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/'.

Why not?

> I would like to run 'html-helperl-mode.el' within a telnet session
> so is there anything I can add to my '.emacs' to tell it to load
> 'html-helper-mode.el' from $HOME/ ?

See the variable load-path.  (add-to-list 'load-path "~/lisp/") --
this is a subdir of your home dir.

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Re: Load .el files from $HOME/ directory?

[Garry Heaton]

Kai Großjohann wrote:
> Garry Heaton <none@none.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>When working with Emacs via telnet I can load my '.emacs' file but can't
>>access '/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/'.
> 
> 
> Why not?

ISP limits access to $HOME via telnet since it's a shared CGI environment.

> 
> 
>>I would like to run 'html-helperl-mode.el' within a telnet session
>>so is there anything I can add to my '.emacs' to tell it to load
>>'html-helper-mode.el' from $HOME/ ?
> 
> 
> See the variable load-path.  (add-to-list 'load-path "~/lisp/") --
> this is a subdir of your home dir.
> 
Thanks. Just what I needed.

Garry

Re: Load .el files from $HOME/ directory?

[Kai Großjohann]

Garry Heaton <none@none.com> writes:

> Kai Großjohann wrote:
>> Garry Heaton <none@none.com> writes:
>> 
>> 
>>>When working with Emacs via telnet I can load my '.emacs' file but can't
>>>access '/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/'.
>> 
>> 
>> Why not?
>
> ISP limits access to $HOME via telnet since it's a shared CGI environment.

Amazing.  But you can access /usr/bin/emacs.  Weird.
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Re: Load .el files from $HOME/ directory?

[Garry Heaton]

Kai Großjohann wrote:
> Garry Heaton <none@none.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>Kai Großjohann wrote:
>>
>>>Garry Heaton <none@none.com> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>When working with Emacs via telnet I can load my '.emacs' file but can't
>>>>access '/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/'.
>>>
>>>
>>>Why not?
>>
>>ISP limits access to $HOME via telnet since it's a shared CGI environment.
> 
> 
> Amazing.  But you can access /usr/bin/emacs.  Weird.

Well I'm just assuming I can't just go and upload my heavily customised
'html-helper-mode.el' file when 1800 users share the same environment. I
might even be committing a computer crime if I tried :-(

Garry

Re: Load .el files from $HOME/ directory?

[Kai Großjohann]

Garry Heaton <none@none.com> writes:

> Well I'm just assuming I can't just go and upload my heavily customised
> 'html-helper-mode.el' file when 1800 users share the same environment. I
> might even be committing a computer crime if I tried :-(

Oh, by "access" you mean "write access"?  Ah!

Of course, it's bad for you to write in /usr/share.

FWIW, in Emacs one usually does NOT change *.el files that come with
the distribution.  Instead, one puts the changes in ~/.emacs.
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Re: Load .el files from $HOME/ directory?

[Tim X]

Garry Heaton <none@none.com> writes:

> Kai Großjohann wrote:
> > Garry Heaton <none@none.com> writes:
> > 
> > 
> >>Kai Großjohann wrote:
> >>
> >>>Garry Heaton <none@none.com> writes:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>When working with Emacs via telnet I can load my '.emacs' file but can't
> >>>>access '/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/'.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Why not?
> >>
> >>ISP limits access to $HOME via telnet since it's a shared CGI environment.
> > 
> > 
> > Amazing.  But you can access /usr/bin/emacs.  Weird.
> 
> Well I'm just assuming I can't just go and upload my heavily customised
> 'html-helper-mode.el' file when 1800 users share the same environment. I
> might even be committing a computer crime if I tried :-(
> 

So why not just run emacs locally and use tramp to access files on the
remote server?

Tim

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