From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Refer to the directory of the currently being loaded elisp script from within the Emacs lisp file itself. Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:40:19 +0200 Message-ID: <87sg1p9198.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <871r99agku.fsf@telefonica.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40585"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:eXtMZsUwpjXjsCx9FHKkKjanLAs= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 10 17:40:51 2021 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 1lrMna-000AJb-T2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:40:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39292 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lrMnZ-0004aa-VC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 11:40:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57638) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lrMnE-0004X3-UR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 11:40:28 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:36568) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lrMnC-00021L-Jh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 11:40:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lrMn9-0009hJ-RM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:40:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ 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 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:130710 Archived-At: Hongyi Zhao writes: >> BTW, the correct method for concatenating a directory and a file name is >> >> (load-file >> (concat >> (file-name-as-directory (file-name-directory load-file-name)) >> "auth.el.gpg")) > > I tried you above code, it still doesn't work with the following info: > > file-name-as-directory: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil [2 times] > Mark set load-file-name is defined while the file is being loaded, after that it is nil. So if you tried with `C-x C-e' or some other interactive command it wont work. Once the code above is in the correct file, save it, start Emacs and report back what happens.