From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to reference the current *.el file in elisp
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:23:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-7B7D97.03232225062009@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1223.1245903674.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.1223.1245903674.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> How does elisp reference the current *.el file?... I mean like in the
> way that the variable $0 carries the the value that is the full name
> of the script its in.
> What I'm really after is a say to to add that value to a message
> ('(message "hello")')
>
> Like this message (wrapped for mail):
>
> (message "hello world -- from
> /cvsb/reader/home/reader/lisp/site-start.el")
> (sit-for 1)
>
> that I use sometimes when tracking down how things are loading.
>
> How can I reference the name in a variable instead of writing it out?
load-file-name
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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[not found] <mailman.1223.1245903674.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-06-25 5:49 ` how to reference the current *.el file in elisp Xah Lee
2009-06-25 7:23 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2009-06-25 11:49 ` Harry Putnam
2009-06-25 12:30 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-06-25 23:43 ` Harry Putnam
[not found] ` <mailman.1237.1245930608.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-06-25 12:18 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-06-26 2:24 ` Barry Margolin
2009-06-28 0:44 ` jidanni
2009-06-29 3:10 ` Barry Margolin
2009-06-30 1:29 ` jidanni
2009-06-30 3:30 ` Barry Margolin
[not found] <mailman.1712.1246572015.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-08 9:30 ` Anselm Helbig
2009-07-02 12:48 jidanni
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2009-06-25 4:20 Harry Putnam
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