From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Elisp - Store path only once Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2021 16:56:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87a6tie5yv.fsf@omarpolo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35671"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:oZ92DJvLXs2Kx9xT9zyUE7DViCM= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 09 22:57:06 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kyMEL-0009BU-PE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 22:57:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58564 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kyMEK-0004ET-Q8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 16:57:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54094) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kyMDw-0004EL-Ar for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 16:56:40 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:55474) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kyMDt-0003HN-Ku for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 16:56:40 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kyMDr-0008bT-TK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 22:56:35 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:127151 Archived-At: >> >(load 'g-eshell) >> >(load 'g-utils) >> (require 'something) > There are (at least) 3 functions you can use to load a list file: `require', > `load-library', and `load'. Actually `load-library` (just like `load-file`) is not meant to be used as a function but rather as a command. Both `load-library` and `load-file` are two commands which give interactive access to the Lisp-level function `load`. Stefan