From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: *.el files Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 13:26:04 +0200 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031571965 30106 127.0.0.1 (9 Sep 2002 11:46:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 11:46:05 +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 17oMzU-0007pR-00 for ; Mon, 09 Sep 2002 13:46:04 +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 17oMzX-0003GR-00; Mon, 09 Sep 2002 07:46:07 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!eusc.inter.net!Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oBNiiK34hq/+cYXEo18nghy8y/M= Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:104615 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:1172 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1172 Raimund.Kohl@freenet.de writes: > 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? Type C-h v load-path RET. You'll see a list of possible directories. If you don't like any of them, you can put something like the following in ~/.emacs: (add-to-list 'load-path "~/lisp/") Also, I suggest (require 'emacs-wiki) and (require 'planner) instead of the load statements. Note the single quotes -- only one in each statement. kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio)