From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ferdinand Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs not loading package via load-path Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 23:47:17 +0200 Message-ID: <8DDBEAA4-6DA8-4582-82E6-604FCF0C354D@gmx.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.0 \(1485\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344462451 27450 80.91.229.3 (8 Aug 2012 21:47:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 21:47:31 +0000 (UTC) To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 08 23:47:31 2012 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 1SzE6E-00065g-5G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 23:47:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45918 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SzE6D-000286-B2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:47:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48230) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SzE67-00027j-Fm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:47:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SzE64-0006yc-1B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:47:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:45193) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SzE63-0006yU-Md for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:47:19 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 08 Aug 2012 21:47:18 -0000 Original-Received: from s5597cbf5.adsl.wanadoo.nl (EHLO [192.168.1.108]) [85.151.203.245] by mail.gmx.net (mp028) with SMTP; 08 Aug 2012 23:47:18 +0200 X-Authenticated: #44561812 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/M+vF3/U3MghQrb+J0tHh0AwIPn8UGF59lZg8YZA 9sTW8piMr7E0OO In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1485) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 213.165.64.22 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:86255 Archived-At: > These paths are not the same, and I don't know if that's an error in > your email or in your .emacs.=20 sorry, that was a typo. I meant to write: >> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/documents/emacs/load on = startup/ess/lisp/") =20 and=20 >> (load "~/documents/emacs/load on startup/ess/lisp/ess-site.el") On Aug 8, 2012, at 11:34 PM, Jack Kelly wrote: > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Ferdinand = wrote: >> Hi, >>=20 >> I would like to use ESS (emacs speaks statistics). >> Therefore I put the ess-site.el in a directory that I added to the = load-path variable in my .emacs file: >>=20 >> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/documents/emacs/load on = startup/ess/lisp/") >> (require =92ess-site) >>=20 >>=20 >> This doesn't work. I get an error on startup (Symbol's value as = variable is void: =92ess-site) >> and I can't open an R session which tells me that the crucial .el = file was not loaded. >>=20 >> When I load the ess-site.el manually or add this to .emacs: >> (load "~/documents/sonstiges/emacs/load on = startup/ess/lisp/ess-site.el") >> it all works fine. >=20 > These paths are not the same, and I don't know if that's an error in > your email or in your .emacs. (The second has "sonstiges" between > "documents" and "emacs".) >=20 > -- Jack