On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 12:23:45PM +0100, Andreas Röhler wrote:
> Have the following load-test.el in some ~/testdir/ :
> 
> (if (file-readable-p "../test.el")
>   (load "../test.el" nil t))
> 
> (file-readable-p "../test.el") reports t, but evaluating the load-function
> sends:

This is probably because `load' doesn't look in the current
directory, but in the directories listed in `load-path'.

Usually that makes sense (usually, you don't want Emacs to
find different libraries just because you change your current
directory)

> Any suggestions?

What are you trying to achieve?

Cheers
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t