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 23:44:25 +0200 Message-ID: <87wpuluq4m.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <86zizhirdx.fsf@gaheris.avalon.lan> <86r3ktiao1.fsf@gaheris.avalon.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445117740 15496 80.91.229.3 (17 Oct 2015 21:35:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 21:35:40 +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 23:35:31 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 1ZnZ8U-0001DN-TU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 23:35:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59844 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnZ8T-0000E2-SJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:35:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45720) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnZ8J-0000Dw-JI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:35:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnZ8G-00054w-Cv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:35:19 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:45294) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnZ8G-000546-6f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:35:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnZ8D-0000vw-CV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 23:35:13 +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 23:35:13 +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 23:35:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 33 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:X1x09vp4qaAEcvG+sfPhAqpzmFw= 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:107727 Archived-At: Mart van de Wege writes: > Teemu had the right idea: in order to load elpa > packages, I have to call (package-initialize) in > .emacs. Thanks for going the trouble. OK, but still: Without the tilde in the `load-path', it only works because probably when loading is done the `default-directory' *is* your HOME! Try this: $ touch .emacs.d/test.el Then do this in Emacs: (setq load-path '(".emacs.d/")) (cd "~") (load "test.el") ; t (cd "..") (load "test.el") ; nil - doesn't work Now instead do: (setq load-path '("~/.emacs.d/")) (cd "~") (load "test.el") ; t (cd "..") (load "test.el") ; t - works! -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573