Re: Agenda export to html error

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@neuf.fr> wrote:

> Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
> 
> > Check your load-path - sometimes, packages take too many freedoms with
> > it.
> 
> Here is my load-path :
> 
> (setq load-path
>       (append load-path
>               (list
>                "~/.emacs.d/elisp"
>                "~/.emacs.d/etc"
>                "~/.emacs.d/elisp/yasnippet-0.5.10"
>                "~/.emacs.d/elisp/org-mode/lisp"
>                "~/.emacs.d/elisp/org-mode/contrib/lisp")))
> 
> I don't see anything that could be wrong.
> 

Well, you are appending your stuff at the end of whatever emacs sets it to,
so it prefers *its* directories over yours.

I also meant that you should ask emacs what *it* thinks its load path is:

  C-h v load-path

That may differ wildly from what you think it is.

As an aside, I think (but I am not sure) that part of the debian/ubuntu
problem that people have been running into is that the convoluted
loading of packages causes load-path to be set in such a way that the
user *cannot* override the setting from his/her own init files; one has
to find and edit/delete system files (in /etc/emacs or thereabouts).

> > locate-library is also useful to see from where a package is loaded:
> >
> >    (locate-library "htmlize")
> 
> You are right. I tend to forget about this function. Alas, in that case,
> this will give me the "who" but not the "why".
> 

It's another debugging tool. In combination with the value of load-path,
it can guide you in the right direction.

Nick