Re: emacs not loading package via load-path

[Ferdinand <Ferdinand.Gruebler@gmx.de>]

> These paths are not the same, and I don't know if that's an error in
> your email or in your .emacs. 

sorry, that was a typo.

I meant to write:

>> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/documents/emacs/load on startup/ess/lisp/")
                                       
and 

>> (load "~/documents/emacs/load on startup/ess/lisp/ess-site.el")





On Aug 8, 2012, at 11:34 PM, Jack Kelly <jack@jackkelly.name> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Ferdinand <Ferdinand.Gruebler@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I would like to use ESS (emacs speaks statistics).
>> Therefore I put the ess-site.el in a directory that I added to the load-path variable in my .emacs file:
>> 
>> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/documents/emacs/load on startup/ess/lisp/")
>> (require ’ess-site)
>> 
>> 
>> This doesn't work. I get an error on startup (Symbol's value as variable is void: ’ess-site)
>> and I can't open an R session which tells me that the crucial .el file was not loaded.
>> 
>> When I load the ess-site.el manually or add this to .emacs:
>> (load "~/documents/sonstiges/emacs/load on startup/ess/lisp/ess-site.el")
>> it all works fine.
> 
> These paths are not the same, and I don't know if that's an error in
> your email or in your .emacs. (The second has "sonstiges" between
> "documents" and "emacs".)
> 
> -- Jack