From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: saneman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Cut and open commands? Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:27:55 +0100 Organization: UNI-C Message-ID: References: <87zlto6hos.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> <878x1866jz.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203979622 12517 80.91.229.12 (25 Feb 2008 22:47:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:47:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 25 23:47:27 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JTm6R-00005M-Fp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:47:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JTm5v-0005Y7-K9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:46:47 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!uio.no!hist.no!news.net.uni-c.dk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 89 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.225.245.182 Original-X-Trace: news.net.uni-c.dk 1203978462 18207 130.225.245.182 (25 Feb 2008 22:27:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.net.uni-c.dk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:27:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) In-Reply-To: <878x1866jz.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156486 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51852 Archived-At: Joel J. Adamson wrote: > saneman writes: > >> Joel J. Adamson wrote: >>> saneman writes: >>> >>> >>> [...] >>> >>>> I have installed: emacs-goodies-el where I can see that cua is listed, >>>> but I still get the error. >>> You have to load it; make sure the .el file is in your load-path (M-x >>> describe-variable RET load-path) and then use (require 'emacs-goodies). >>> I'm guessing you're using a Debian system, so it probably installed into >>> your load-path and all you need is the require statement in your .emacs. >>> >>> Joel >>> >> I have added this to my .emacs file: >> >> >> (setq load-path (cons "~/work/mylisp" load-path)) >> (setq load-path (cons "/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el" >> load-path)) > > Sorry I forgot to mention: use add-to-list as in > > (add-to-list 'load-path > (expand-file-name "~/lisp/el/")) > > Joel > I still get the same error. This is how my .emacs file looks: ;;; Emacs Load Path (setq load-path (cons "~/work/mylisp" load-path)) (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el")) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; Load .el files ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; (require 'emacs-goodies) I have tried to comment out: (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el")) and then print the content of my load-path with: M-x describe-variable RET load-path and the result is: load-path's value is ("~/work/mylisp" "/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el" "/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/dictionaries-common" "/etc/emacs21" "/etc/emacs" "/usr/local/share/emacs/21.4/site-lisp" "/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/site-lisp" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/site-lisp/dictionaries-common" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el" "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/leim" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/toolbar" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/textmodes" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/progmodes" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/play" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/obsolete" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/net" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/mail" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/language" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/international" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/gnus" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/eshell" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/emulation" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/emacs-lisp" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/calendar") As can be seen the /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el path is already in my load-path without adding it in my .emacs file. So the error must have something to do with the: (require 'emacs-goodies) command...