Eric Abrahamsen writes: > Ruben Maher writes: > >> Sharon Kimble writes: >> >>> For some time now I've been getting this - >>> Warning (initialization): Your `load-path' seems to contain >>> your `.emacs.d' directory: /home/boudiccas/.emacs.d/ >>> This is likely to cause problems... >>> Consider using a subdirectory instead, e.g.: /home/boudiccas/.emacs.d/lisp >>> in my *Warnings* buffer. >>> >>> These are the relevant lines from my "init.el" >>> (setq load-path (cons "/home/boudiccas/.emacs.d/lisp" load-path)) >>> (add-to-list 'load-path "/home/boudiccas/.emacs.d/personal-lisp") >>> >>> Why doesn't it accept what's in the "init.el" please, and what can I >>> do to put it right? >> >> Hi Sharon, >> >> Emacs is not rejecting init.el, it's just warning you. If you don't >> want to see the warning anymore you can drop this snippet in there: >> >> (eval-after-load "warnings" >> ;; shut up, emacs! >> '(setq display-warning-minimum-level :error)) >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Ruben > > But the root cause still ought to be that, somewhere in your init, > you've got (add-to-list 'load-path "/home/boudiccas/.emacs.d"). Are you > sure you don't? I've been following emacs trunk, and a while ago got the > same warning. > > I fixed it by removing ~/.emacs.d from my load path, putting > (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/lisp") in my ~/.emacs.d/init.el > file, and then putting everything I wanted to require or load underneath > ~/.emacs.d/lisp. No warnings anymore... > Thanks for this Eric, this is what I ended up doing, although I was very wary of destroying my hard-won set-up, and I did restore my "init.el" from backup as it was so cobbled about that I couldn't see what was loading and what wasn't! And I did have 2 instances of (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d") which were soon commented out! That problem of "Warning (initialization)" has been bugging me for months and I kept putting off dealing with it but it got embarrassing when the task had been repeated for 84 days, and still not dealt with! :) But now its all pristine clean and working well, thanks folks :) Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk my git repo = https://bitbucket.org/boudiccas/dots TGmeds = http://www.tgmeds.org.uk Debian testing, fluxbox 1.3.5, emacs 24.3.91.1