From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: readable-not-found Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2022 20:22:33 +0100 Message-ID: <87pmmvgccm.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87mthziagp.fsf@zoho.eu> <14725738-73fc-904b-20e0-50f92ba34034@easy-emacs.de> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4789"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:LIA6j9XaLSESa/YxD2TZMy53/OY= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 20:23:36 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nS1uK-00010n-BA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2022 20:23:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38602 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nS1uJ-0002uY-A3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2022 14:23:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:49298) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nS1tY-0002t9-Cj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2022 14:22:50 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:39546) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nS1tW-0006Lb-3d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2022 14:22:47 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nS1tQ-000A90-HE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2022 20:22:40 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:136422 Archived-At: Andreas Röhler wrote: >>> (if (file-readable-p "../test.el") >>> (load "../test.el" nil t)) >> >> (defun load-if-exists (file) >> (if (file-exists-p file) >> (load-file file) >> (message "The file %s does not exist." file) )) > > Didn't use load-file, as assumed designed for > interactive use. No, don't assume that ... on the contrary assume everything works both ways, or at least the interactive -> Lisp way ... Sometimes the docstring and/or byte compiler will tell you otherwise, should be rare as that is a sign of whatever badness so it needs to be stated, i.e. an explicit exception to general fluidularity ... > When looking into its definition, it's expand-file-name > which does it: > > (load (expand-file-name "../test.el") nil t) Indeed, gets the absolute path. > Thanks all! np :) -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal