Re: puzzled with load-path entries - where do they come from when .emacs is empty?

[Mirko <mvukovic@nycap.rr.com>]

On Nov 10, 7:08 pm, Xah <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mirko <mvuko...@nycap.rr.com> wrote:
> > I am using emacs 22.1 on windows & I am puzzled with the components of
> > load-path: where are they coming from:
> > Even if I completely comment out all of my .emacs, and my
> > EMACSLOADPATH is empty, when I start up emacs, my load-path is full of
> > stuff: slime, planner, muse, auctex,... that I use.  But since I
> > commented all of the code in .emacs where did that stuff come from?
> > Again, my .emacs is completely commented out.
> > ...
> > I found site-lisp/site-start.d with auctex.el and preview-latex.el.
> > That explains the auctex message during startup.  But still no clue as
> > to where load-path gets preloaded.
>
> > Actually, could it be that emacs populates load-path automatically
> > based on the contents of the site-lisp directory?  That would explain
> > everything.
>
> basically all langs, e.g. perl, java, python, php, mathematica,
> provides you with a default load path, so that basic functionalities
> are available.
>
> if emacs doesn't provide you with a default path, all the basic major
> modes, c, java, perl, shell, dired ... and probably most of
> fundamental working of emacs will break.
>
> At a user level, if you want absolutely the minimal stuff in load
> path, start emacs with --no-site-file --no-init-file. You'll probably
> still see entries in load path though. If for some reason you simply
> don't want any, you can set it to empty and see what is the effect, or
> hack emacs's source.
>
>   Xah
> ∑http://xahlee.org/
>
> ☄

Xah, Kevin,

Thanks for the pointers

Mirko