From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Installing matlab mode under Windows XP Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:29:23 -0700 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <20782381.840281164032448425.JavaMail.webmail@ps7zhb.bluewin.ch> <3B6E0242-6B81-42EB-8F6E-EA8363181310@easesoftware.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164213101 7271 80.91.229.2 (22 Nov 2006 16:31:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:31:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 22 17:31:39 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gmv0N-0007fM-LV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:31:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gmv0N-0001Sd-6q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:31:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gmuzm-0001Dd-UL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:30:46 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gmuzl-0001DD-VC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:30:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gmuzl-0001D5-Qe for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:30:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Gmuzk-0006Md-Ki for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:30:45 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GmuzR-0007Ss-8L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:30:25 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:30:25 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:30:25 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38899 Archived-At: Glenn Morris wrote: > Kevin Rodgers wrote: > >> Then create a subdirs.el file in the directory (e.g. ~/emacs/subdirs.el) >> with these contents: >> >> (if (fboundp 'normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path) >> (normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path)) > > Will that actually do anything in this case? I thought that because of > the order in which Emacs does things at startup, any additions made to > load-path in ~/.emacs don't get scanned for subdirs.el files. At least > this was the case three years ago: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-04/msg00315.html Indeed, a simple experiment shows you're correct. Sorry about that! So OP has to do it explicitly in ~/.emacs: (setq load-path (cons "~/emacs" load-path)) (let ((default-directory "~/emacs")) (normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path)) -- Kevin