Re: how to reference the current *.el file in elisp

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

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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