From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mirko Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: puzzled with load-path entries - where do they come from when .emacs is empty? Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:33:19 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1fcacf3d-32af-464e-b117-fa0669dd790d@i24g2000prf.googlegroups.com> References: <11534d33-6ec0-4348-99a4-236a44365da0@v22g2000pro.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226346143 10521 80.91.229.12 (10 Nov 2008 19:42:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:42:23 +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 Nov 10 20:43:24 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 1KzcfT-0002l4-KY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:43:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35279 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KzceL-0005em-1N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:42:13 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i24g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 47 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.218.238.20 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1226345600 13285 127.0.0.1 (10 Nov 2008 19:33:20 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:33:20 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i24g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=208.218.238.20; posting-account=yS7ZzQoAAACbDncxMo9UeCyhsLtcDWPM User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:164288 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:59623 Archived-At: On Nov 10, 1:59=A0pm, Mirko wrote: > On Nov 10, 12:10=A0pm, Mirko wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I am using emacs 22.1 on windows & I am puzzled with the components of > > load-path: where are they coming from: > > > Even if I completely comment out all of my .emacs, and my > > EMACSLOADPATH is empty, when I start up emacs, my load-path is full of > > stuff: slime, planner, muse, auctex,... that I use. =A0But since I > > commented all of the code in .emacs where did that stuff come from? > > Again, my .emacs is completely commented out. > > > Thanks, > > > Mirko > > As additional info, here is my *Message* buffer > ("E:\\program-files\\emacs-22.1\\bin\\emacs.exe" "--debug-init") > Loading encoded-kb...done > Loading e:/program-files/emacs-22.1/site-lisp/tex-site.el > (source)...done > Loading debug...done > Entering debugger... > Loading help-mode...done > > Emacs is loading auctex' tex-site. =A0No idea why. > > Also, I checked, and there is no ~/.emacs.elc file. > > Still puzzled, > > Mirko I found site-lisp/site-start.d with auctex.el and preview-latex.el. That explains the auctex message during startup. But still no clue as to where load-path gets preloaded. Actually, could it be that emacs populates load-path automatically based on the contents of the site-lisp directory? That would explain everything. Thanks to all that helped :-) Mirko