File for minor mode not found

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Jan 9, 2022, 15:12 by stephen.berman@gmx.net:

> On Sun, 9 Jan 2022 15:43:42 +0100 (CET) fatiparty--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Jan 9, 2022, 06:47 by tomas@tuxteam.de:
>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 09, 2022 at 06:14:33AM +0100, fatiparty--- via Users list for
>>> the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Have made a minor mode called daph stored in file path
>>>>
>>>> ~/Admir/typ/zig/daph-ideograms"
>>>>
>>>
>>> Under which name is it stored there?
>>>
>>>> This is the call for daph-minor-mode
>>>>
>>>> (define-minor-mode daph-minor-mode
>>>>
>>>> At the end or the file I use (provide 'daph)
>>>>
>>>> In another file I call the minor mode
>>>>
>>>> (defun fad-daph-ideograms ()
>>>>    "Tex command highlighting."
>>>>
>>>>    (add-to-list
>>>>       'load-path "~/Admir/typ/zig/daph-ideograms")
>>>>
>>>>    (require 'daph)
>>>>
>>>
>>> This is looking for a file "daph.el" (after looking for a "daph.elc")
>>> somewhere in `load-path'. Does that exist?
>>>
>>> Sorry for asking something which might be obvious, but your question
>>> doesn't make it completely clear.
>>>
>>
>> It does not exist.  The file is named daph-ideograms.el but I am using 
>> (provide 'daph) at the end of the file.  And using (require 'daph) after 
>> setting the load-path in another file.
>>
>
> That should be (require 'daph "daph-ideograms"), see `C-h f require':.
>
>  require is a built-in function in ‘C source code’.
>  
>  (require FEATURE &optional FILENAME NOERROR)
>  
>  If feature FEATURE is not loaded, load it from FILENAME.
>  If FEATURE is not a member of the list ‘features’, then the feature is
>  not loaded; so load the file FILENAME.
>  
>  If FILENAME is omitted, the printname of FEATURE is used as the file
>  name, and ‘load’ will try to load this name appended with the suffix
>  ‘.elc’, ‘.el’, or the system-dependent suffix for dynamic module
>  files, in that order.
>
> Steve Berman
>

Thanks Steve.  One thing that has been difficult to see, is the relationship between
(provide 'daph) and (require 'daph).  Following your suggestion, I need to have
(require 'daph "daph-ideograms").  Are there any implications for the (provide 'daph) part?