From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jari Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7665: Emacs: add command line option -L to set more paths to load-path Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 21:10:30 +0200 Message-ID: <20101218191030.GC9613@picasso.cante.net> References: <8739pw2srx.fsf@picasso.cante.net> <878vznz5ku.fsf@picasso.cante.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292700178 4153 80.91.229.12 (18 Dec 2010 19:22:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:22:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7665@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 18 20:22:54 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PU2Mn-0002AP-1N for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 20:22:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47089 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PU2Mm-0007u8-9q for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:22:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47040 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PU2Mh-0007qD-GP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:22:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PU2Mg-0000Zj-K9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:22:47 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:37482) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PU2Mg-0000Zd-IT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:22:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PU25W-0002qe-Mn; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:05:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: jari Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:05:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 7665 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 7665-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B7665.129269905410889 (code B ref 7665); Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:05:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7665) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Dec 2010 19:04:14 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PU24k-0002pa-0K for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:04:14 -0500 Original-Received: from emh02.mail.saunalahti.fi ([62.142.5.108]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PU24g-0002pM-T2 for 7665@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:04:11 -0500 Original-Received: from saunalahti-vams (vs3-10.mail.saunalahti.fi [62.142.5.94]) by emh02-2.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with SMTP id 20382EF5D5; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 21:10:34 +0200 (EET) Original-Received: from emh03.mail.saunalahti.fi ([62.142.5.109]) by vs3-10.mail.saunalahti.fi ([62.142.5.94]) with SMTP (gateway) id A01D9214190; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 21:10:34 +0200 Original-Received: from picasso.cante.net (a91-155-187-216.elisa-laajakaista.fi [91.155.187.216]) by emh03.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8897D158A63; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 21:10:30 +0200 (EET) Original-Received: from jaalto by picasso.cante.net with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PU2Ao-0005yr-JY; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 21:10:30 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jaalto@picasso.cante.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on picasso.cante.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Antivirus: VAMS X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:05:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:42625 Archived-At: On 2010-12-18 11:01, Stefan Monnier wrote: | > | > An example: | > | > emacs -L ~/elisp/package -L ~/.emacs.d/downloaded -l my-test.el | | > Just like Drew explained. The above would effectively do: | | > (add-to-list 'load-path "~/elisp/package") | > (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/downloaded") | > (load-library "my-test.el") | | I understood that part, of course. The question is: why do you need to | do that? | Hence "What are these directories and how are they related to my-test.el?" | And "Why ~/elisp/package and ~/.emacs.d/downloaded?" Users download packages for Emas from emacswiki etc. and those packages are put either under: ~/elisp/ or ~/.emacs.d/ To set the load-path to include more directories at command line is typically needed for - To test new features (as in above: my-test.el does something with 'require' commands). - To be able to set load-path for byte compiling packages Jari