From: fatiparty--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Tomas <tomas@tuxteam.de>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: File for minor mode not found
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2022 22:49:58 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <MszlWaV--3-2@tutanota.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YdsSSzXe5tyw1mba@tuxteam.de>
Jan 9, 2022, 16:50 by tomas@tuxteam.de:
> On Sun, Jan 09, 2022 at 05:37:49PM +0100, fatiparty--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> I have difficulty about the utility of 'provide'. You have pointed out that (provide 'daph)
>> simply announces that daph is a feature of the current emacs. Can it be any name? The
>> manual states that "calling 'provide' adds 'feature' tothe front of 'features' if it is not already
>> in that list". This suggests that provide should also use (provide 'daph-ideograms).
>>
>
> That depends on how you want to call your feature. Note that once a
> feature is `provide'd, a `require' of that feature does nothing. Quoting
> from the docs:
>
> 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.
>
>> I guess that one could define the feature as 'daph' when using 'provide'. And use the feature 'daph'
>> when calling 'require'. In this way, the 'daph' will be recognise the 'daph' feature in the features variable,
>> but use the optional filename "daph-ideograms"
>>
>
> Yes, that'd be a way to do it (in theory you could have one file
> providing several features, for example).
>
>> Thus
>>
>> daph-ideograms.el
>> **********************
>> (provide 'daph)
>>
>> test.el
>> *******
>> (add-to-list
>> 'load-path "~/Admin/bin/gadi-1.0/typex/ziggurat-protowrit/daph-ideograms")
>> ;; Load the Daph Package if it has not already been loaded.
>> (require 'daph "daph-ideograms")
>>
>> --------
>>
>> My load path is quite long, and wonder how this can be shortened by storing in some other variable
>> before passing to 'add-to-list'.
>>
>
> I don't quite understand your last sentence. What is it you are trying
> to shorten -- and how?
>
I want to keep within 72 characters on the line. I could store the first part
'~/Admin/bin/gadi-1.0/typex/ziggurat-protowrit/' in some variable, and find some
way to add the complete path for 'add-to-list'.
> Cheers
> --
> t
>
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-09 5:14 File for minor mode not found fatiparty--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-01-09 6:47 ` tomas
2022-01-09 7:06 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-01-09 10:04 ` tomas
2022-01-09 15:01 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-01-09 14:43 ` fatiparty--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-01-09 15:12 ` Stephen Berman
2022-01-09 15:57 ` Tomas
[not found] ` <878rvpeyek.fsf@gmx.net-MszOZsb----2>
2022-01-09 15:46 ` fatiparty--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-01-09 16:01 ` Stephen Berman
[not found] ` <874k6cgap3.fsf@gmx.net-MszaWDg----2>
2022-01-09 16:37 ` fatiparty--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-01-09 16:50 ` tomas
2022-01-09 21:49 ` fatiparty--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2022-01-09 22:10 ` Tomas
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2022-01-10 12:19 ` fatiparty--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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2022-01-11 0:23 ` fatiparty--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-01-11 6:38 ` Tomas
2022-01-11 16:33 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-01-11 16:41 ` tomas
[not found] ` <Yd0lz7vSTBzYeeJW@tuxteam.de-Mt6ynvW--7-2>
2022-01-11 16:25 ` fatiparty--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-01-11 16:36 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-01-09 15:56 ` Tomas
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[not found] ` <MsxIft1--B-2@tutanota.com>
2022-01-09 17:25 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
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