From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kgold@watson.ibm.com (kgold) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: *.el files Date: 9 Sep 2002 17:49:58 GMT Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031595367 12270 127.0.0.1 (9 Sep 2002 18:16:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 18:16:07 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17oT4v-0003BP-00 for ; Mon, 09 Sep 2002 20:16:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17oT4y-0007MZ-00; Mon, 09 Sep 2002 14:16:08 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.tufts.edu!uunet!dca.uu.net!news.chips.ibm.com!newsfeed.btv.ibm.com!news.btv.ibm.com!kgold Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: alpha.watson.ibm.com Original-X-Trace: news.btv.ibm.com 1031593798 24498 9.2.16.245 (9 Sep 2002 17:49:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@btv.ibm.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Sep 2002 17:49:58 GMT X-Newsreader: xrn 9.01 Originator: kgold@watson.ibm.com Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:104636 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1192 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1192 They have to be in a directory in your "load-path". Here's a sample of how to set a load-path in your .emacs. (setq load-path (append '("~/emacs") load-path)) In article , Raimund.Kohl@freenet.de writes: > Hi, > > I've downloaded wiki.el and planner.el -- now: where do I move the files > to so that emacs can find them. If I just leave them in my /home/user > directory and put (load emacs-wiki) and (load planner) in my .emacs file > they cause lisp error messages. What am I going to do - respectivly: what > did I do wrong? -- -- Ken Goldman kgold@watson.ibm.com 914-784-7646