From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
To: saneman <asdfsdf@asd.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: using string variable with file name
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:49:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871w7339e3.fsf@thievol.homelinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fpp2q8$5f9$1@news.net.uni-c.dk> (saneman's message of "Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:16:11 +0100")
saneman <asdfsdf@asd.com> writes:
> Joost Kremers wrote:
>> saneman wrote:
>>> In my .emacs file I have made:
>>>
>>> ;; Directories
>>> (setq mylisp "~/work/mylisp/")
>>>
>>> ;; Line numbers
>>> (load-file mylisp cons "setnu.el")
>>> (global-set-key "\C-cl" 'setnu-mode)
>>>
>>> But this gives an error. How do I "cons" the variable mylisp with a
>>> filename?
>>
>> (cons mylisp "setnu.el")
>>
>> however, that gives you a cons, which (i think) is not what you want. in
>> order to concatenate strings, you need concat:
>>
>> (concat mylisp "setnu.el")
>>
>> but even that is probably not the best way to do what you want. it's
>> probably better to add "~/work/mylisp" to your load path:
>>
>> (setq load-path (cons "~/work/mylisp" load-path))
>>
>> then you can load the file without explicitly naming its path:
>>
>> (load-file "setnu.el")
>>
>>
>
> When using you last advice:
> (setq load-path (cons "~/work/mylisp" load-path))
> (load-file "setnu.el")
>
> I get the error:
> File error: "Cannot open load file", "/home/saneman/setnu.el"
>
>
> Seems that the load-path is not updated.
>
>
> The fist solution:
> (setq mylisp "~/work/mylisp/")
> (load-file (concat mylisp "setnu.el" ))
>
> works. Are there any rules that say that .el files will not be found
> in the load-path?
>
Try that:(if setnu.el is in the directory mylisp)
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/work/mylisp")
(load "setnu.el")
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-23 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-23 11:53 using string variable with file name saneman
2008-02-23 12:00 ` Joost Kremers
2008-02-23 12:16 ` saneman
2008-02-23 12:44 ` Johan Bockgård
2008-02-23 13:03 ` Joost Kremers
2008-02-23 16:49 ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]
2008-02-23 23:45 ` Daniel Pittman
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