how to get this file to work? (another newbie question)

how to get this file to work? (another newbie question)

[ocelot1970]

Everyone was so helpful for my last question!

Here is another: I found a file keywiz.el, at this location:
http://whome.phys.au.dk/~harder/

What the file is is a game where the player tries to guess the right
key-binding.

What I want to know is just how to make it work. The instructions for
the file say to press M-x and then keywiz. When I do that what happens
is I get a '[no match]' error.

The problem is, I don't know where to store this file to make this
work. I tried my home folder, and also  the "play" folder within "usr."
They don't work and this is probably a really basis question, but where
do I put files like this I get from external sources?

Re: how to get this file to work? (another newbie question)

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 24.12.2006 um 22:21 schrieb ocelot1970@gmail.com:

> The problem is, I don't know where to store this file to make this
> work.

When you put it into a location as described in the variable load- 
path, you can require it, or use load-library. You can put it  
anywhere and load it with load-file. You can even load it into GNU  
Emacs from the command line ...

--
Greetings

   Pete

"Specifications are for the weak and timid!"

Re: how to get this file to work? (another newbie question)

[ocelot1970]

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Am 24.12.2006 um 22:21 schrieb ocelot1970@gmail.com:
>
> > The problem is, I don't know where to store this file to make this
> > work.
>
> When you put it into a location as described in the variable load-
> path, you can require it, or use load-library. You can put it
> anywhere and load it with load-file. You can even load it into GNU
> Emacs from the command line ...

Thank you generously for the response. But I do not understand. I do
not see 'load-library' or 'load-file' anywhere, because the file manu
has 'open file' and 'insert file.' Please what is the key-binding for
either load-path or load-library, or how could I find out if there
wasn't a newsgroup here?

Re: how to get this file to work? (another newbie question)

[Lennart Borgman]

ocelot1970@gmail.com wrote:
> Peter Dyballa wrote:
>> Am 24.12.2006 um 22:21 schrieb ocelot1970@gmail.com:
>>
>>> The problem is, I don't know where to store this file to make this
>>> work.
>> When you put it into a location as described in the variable load-
>> path, you can require it, or use load-library. You can put it
>> anywhere and load it with load-file. You can even load it into GNU
>> Emacs from the command line ...
> 
> Thank you generously for the response. But I do not understand. I do
> not see 'load-library' or 'load-file' anywhere, because the file manu
> has 'open file' and 'insert file.' Please what is the key-binding for
> either load-path or load-library, or how could I find out if there
> wasn't a newsgroup here?



The good place to start to learn is usually in Info, a hypertext 
documentation system inside Emacs. You reach it by typing

    C-h r

or via the menus

    Help - Read the Emacs Manual

(This is how it looks in Emacs 22, now in pretest.)

Another starting place might be http://www.EmacsWiki.org/.


Interactive commands (load-library is that) can be called like

    M-x load-library

Re: how to get this file to work? (another newbie question)

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 25.12.2006 um 02:39 schrieb ocelot1970@gmail.com:

> Please what is the key-binding for either load-path or load-library,

I have none created ...

> or how could I find out if there wasn't a newsgroup here?

You could try C-h f ... Or you just start with C-h t. Next year you  
should know the answers before you imagine the question. That's GNU  
Emacs!

--
Greetings

   Pete

Think of XML as Lisp for COBOL programmers.
                               -- Tony-A (some guy on /.)

Re: how to get this file to work? (another newbie question)

[Rupert]

ocelot1970@gmail.com wrote:
> Everyone was so helpful for my last question!
>
> Here is another: I found a file keywiz.el, at this location:
> http://whome.phys.au.dk/~harder/
>
> What the file is is a game where the player tries to guess the right
> key-binding.
>
> What I want to know is just how to make it work. The instructions for
> the file say to press M-x and then keywiz. When I do that what happens
> is I get a '[no match]' error.
>
> The problem is, I don't know where to store this file to make this
> work. I tried my home folder, and also  the "play" folder within "usr."
> They don't work and this is probably a really basis question, but where
> do I put files like this I get from external sources?

Hi! I feel I should help - the other answers you got are correct, but
you might be looking for something a little more targeted.

When emacs loads, it reads through a load of .el files containing elisp
code. A large proportion of emacs is in fact written in elisp rather
than C, the core programming language. However, emacs needs to know
what files to read, which is controlled by two things:

- It maintains a list of directories in a variable called load-path. To
see this, probably it's easiest to run C-h v load-path (help,about
variable,load-path).
- There is a function called load, which finds a file in one of the
directories in load-path and then reads everything in it.
- Files loaded by emacs have lots of invocations of load, which then
load a sort of tree of dependent files.

The easiest thing for now is to add a "load" invocation in your .emacs
file and put the file you want to load in your site-lisp directory.
Eventually, things will get very slow unless you factor them out with
autoloading etc., but maybe that's for when you're a little more
confident with elisp in general.

Hope this is of some use,

Rupert