From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Please help with slime initialisation
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 08:45:18 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sij3jfa9.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2d2a77fz8.fsf@gmail.com> (Guido Van Hoecke's message of "Sat, 04 Oct 2014 22:11:07 +0200")
Guido Van Hoecke (2014-10-05 00:11 +0400) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I added slime to my configuration via package management.
>
> My load-path
> variable contains the correct load-path:
> "/Users/guivho/.emacs.d/elpa/slime-20141002.1224"
>
> This directory contains a slime-autoloads.el ending with a
> (provide 'slime-autoloads)
>
> My .emacs has a
>
> (require 'slime-autoloads)
>
> line but it complains that it does
> not find it, unless I explicitely precede this require line with:
>
> (add-to-list 'load-path (concat emacsd-dir "elpa/slime-20141002.1224"))
>
> which adds a second "/Users/guivho/.emacs.d/elpa/slime-20141002.1224" to
> my load-path.
>
> Why does it only work with this additional entry in the load-path list?
Because Emacs autoloads those "~/.elpa" packages only after loading a
user init file. See (info "(emacs) Package Installation").
A usual practice is to have:
(setq package-enable-at-startup nil)
(package-initialize)
in your .emacs (before requiring anything from elpa dir).
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2014-10-04 20:11 Please help with slime initialisation Guido Van Hoecke
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2014-10-05 7:43 ` Guido Van Hoecke
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