From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jack Kelly Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs not loading package via load-path Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 07:34:53 +1000 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344463539 2752 80.91.229.3 (8 Aug 2012 22:05:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 22:05:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" To: Ferdinand Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 09 00:05:39 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SzENm-0007uJ-M7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:05:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48762 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SzENl-0004lc-PU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:05:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46120) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SzDu3-0001MG-G2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:34:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SzDu2-0002cA-Bh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:34:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-we0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]:56032) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SzDu2-0002bx-1A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:34:54 -0400 Original-Received: by weys10 with SMTP id s10so893602wey.0 for ; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:34:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=dPVY8zC3Zj/fFHLAwk1pG3lgbxWLMG7SOPDxaa8ed8s=; b=JshE5vBqVLWP/DHqlRUZO9rEOvI6sSOBPwyzfG0q0YqM5JQLZJ2LhQoNJcHhvgIwUs Wghppwf65g1qK2TE2IP3bwQwVX+Qh8n5XTRvwDeqCqqxyjktxCQsI2CXfgXsmNoZd4+f iH50qr/pXMxFYlfre0SSPiPWJBPoRgMmDJ3bZbXH6JFAiTuoVp7cHIqVh4NsWRuV/Z5J 2vlJJuS2t8QXNJsPnV1jvuXkPCt8fSwvBwOdwv3NEreojVWi9sAAbUU8cOx4wrQigDk8 qt0DUgqwT7SDFXCk5zfLhyyhHNAEAlVGge6/fG87nUrt/4BOEr/8uurScisHKai4AHba O/NA== Original-Received: by 10.180.81.66 with SMTP id y2mr917970wix.22.1344461693368; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:34:53 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.194.93.196 with HTTP; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 14:34:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Google-Sender-Auth: GN0tOW4Rc9BMArhAHKIaWtlZFK8 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 74.125.82.169 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:05:32 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:86257 Archived-At: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Ferdinand 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-p= ath variable in my .emacs file: > > (add-to-list 'load-path "~/documents/emacs/load on startup/ess/lisp/") > (require =92ess-site) > > > This doesn't work. I get an error on startup (Symbol's value as variable = is void: =92ess-site) > and I can't open an R session which tells me that the crucial .el file wa= s 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