From: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Requiring elisp that comes with Emacs
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 12:06:16 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANc-5UxbTorFnx+qWGm3UORx67KnXCi32Kyn6Lh6Zn_6k9=b1w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1f39tv4.fsf@wanadoo.es>
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> wrote:
> Type
>
> C-h f require [ENTER]
>
> A *Help* buffer will popup with the docstring for `require'. There it is
> explained that the file for the require-d package is inferred from the
> package name.
>
Thanks. When I said "this is all speculation", I meant how it works under
the covers (how it compares semantically to Python's import statement or
C++'s namespace statement), not how it locates a file to load. I realize
that require uses the argument symbol name as the basename of the source
file.
Skip
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-31 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-30 16:52 Requiring elisp that comes with Emacs Narendra Joshi
2017-01-30 18:50 ` Skip Montanaro
2017-01-31 13:46 ` Narendra Joshi
2017-01-31 14:39 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-01-31 18:06 ` Skip Montanaro [this message]
2017-01-31 20:03 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-01-31 14:50 ` Skip Montanaro
2017-01-31 20:01 ` Narendra Joshi
2017-01-31 20:40 ` Skip Montanaro
2017-02-01 10:07 ` hector
2017-02-01 15:10 ` Narendra Joshi
2017-02-01 15:53 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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