Re: relative load-file

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Rocky Bernstein <rocky@gnu.org> writes:

Hi Rocky!

> For developing multi-file emacs packages, it would be helpful to have
> something akin to require-relative in Ruby 1.9. That is, one wants to
> load an Emacs Lisp file relative the file that issues the load which
> is often in the same directory or a nearby directory.

`load-file' accepts relative paths.

Let's say your project looks like

      foo/foo.el
      foo/misc/foo-misc.el

then a (load-file "misc/foo-misc.el") in foo.el should work.

Bye,
Tassilo