From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: saneman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Cut and open commands? Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:38:01 +0100 Organization: UNI-C Message-ID: References: <87zlto6hos.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203968520 3549 80.91.229.12 (25 Feb 2008 19:42:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:42:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 25 20:42:25 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JTjDT-0001tC-Pr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:42:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JTjCy-00063o-1u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:41:52 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.net.uni-c.dk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.225.245.182 Original-X-Trace: news.net.uni-c.dk 1203968269 17223 130.225.245.182 (25 Feb 2008 19:37:49 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.net.uni-c.dk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:37:49 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) In-Reply-To: <87zlto6hos.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156484 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:51850 Archived-At: Joel J. Adamson wrote: > saneman writes: > > > [...] > >> I have installed: emacs-goodies-el where I can see that cua is listed, >> but I still get the error. > > You have to load it; make sure the .el file is in your load-path (M-x > describe-variable RET load-path) and then use (require 'emacs-goodies). > I'm guessing you're using a Debian system, so it probably installed into > your load-path and all you need is the require statement in your .emacs. > > Joel > I have added this to my .emacs file: (setq load-path (cons "~/work/mylisp" load-path)) (setq load-path (cons "/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el" load-path)) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; Load .el files ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; (require 'emacs-goodies) But I get the error: File error: "Cannot open load file", "emacs-goodies" So even though I have added the directory: /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el To the load-path, its not found.