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: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:34:17 +0200 Message-ID: <87vba5wlty.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <86zizhirdx.fsf@gaheris.avalon.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445095543 17772 80.91.229.3 (17 Oct 2015 15:25:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 15:25:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 17 17:25:28 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 1ZnTMN-0001A1-7j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:25:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58652 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnTMM-00036A-Ei for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 11:25:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38007) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnTMA-00033y-Gf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 11:25:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnTM7-0001Cy-Bf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 11:25:14 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58434) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnTM7-0001Ck-5Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 11:25:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnTM4-0000qa-8u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:25:08 +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 ; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:25:08 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-244.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:25:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 45 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:eI8vQePMuv5Q8e9QYH7f7RBEeC8= 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:107709 Archived-At: Mart van de Wege writes: > I've installed a bunch of libraries from elpa, and > I found at least one of them is not available unless > I do an explicit M-x load-library > > Now, I thought to add that to my .emacs, but neither > (load-library "org-alert") ... you mean that interactive `load-library' works but not as Lisp? If you check out the source for load-library, the only thing it is is an interactive interface to `load'. So probably it helps you with the path when called with M-x. Without it, try using the whole path. Or why not ditch it altogether in favor of load? That should eliminate the interactive/Lisp discrepancy, if any. load searches `load-path' and appends .elc (first), then .el. > (require 'org-alert) If what you `require' isn't provided require is also an interface to load. So use load to troubleshot this. > .emacs.d/elpa/ is in my load-path. Try to add a tilde ~/.emacs.d/elpa or the complete path: /home/user/.emacs.d/elpa/ to test, put a file test.el in ~/.emacs.d (setq load-path '("~/.emacs.d/")) (load "test.el") This works for me, but not if I do without the tilde and then do `cd' to another directory. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573