From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: .emacs not loading libraries Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 14:14:29 +0200 Message-ID: <87io64qspm.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <86zizhirdx.fsf@gaheris.avalon.lan> <86r3ktiao1.fsf@gaheris.avalon.lan> <86io65i0x8.fsf@gaheris.avalon.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445169953 32401 80.91.229.3 (18 Oct 2015 12:05:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 12:05:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 18 14:05:45 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Znmib-0002LC-PS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 14:05:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33518 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Znmia-0006vb-Tk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 08:05:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43590) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnmiN-0006vS-N5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 08:05:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnmiK-0000NK-E6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 08:05:27 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41546) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnmiK-0000NF-7D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 08:05:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnmiE-0001zx-Cf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 14:05:18 +0200 Original-Received: from nl106-137-244.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 14:05:18 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-244.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 14:05:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-244.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xV5/qAh5bQDhOq+NKY26I1TuB9c= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107734 Archived-At: Mart van de Wege writes: > Yep. I was unclear, when I mention .emacs.d/elpa > I meant relative to my home dir; it has the tilde in > it in the function calls adding it to my load-path. > > I've gotten pretty good at elisp, but until recently > I stuck to debian-packaged packages; only because > I got seriously into org-mode for my personal > planning needs did I switch to elpa packages, > because they update a lot faster than Debian; and > the one package I needed was org-alert to alert me > to my deadlines. > > Your explanation was spot-on, hence the thanks for > going to the trouble of writing all that out. My pleasure :) But even more cred to the other guy who actually solved the problem \o/ -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573