From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to check if xyz-mode is on load path? Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 07:25:19 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1236003980 26744 80.91.229.12 (2 Mar 2009 14:26:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 14:26:20 +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 Mar 02 15:27:36 2009 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 1Le976-0000I1-AR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:27:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44810 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Le95l-0001gb-82 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:26:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Le95J-0001dH-Ql for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:25:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Le95H-0001YZ-Sh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:25:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49999 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Le95H-0001YL-I8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:25:31 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:36871 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Le95H-00037x-3y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:25:31 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Le95E-0001WW-Dk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:25:28 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-190-36-32.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.190.36.32]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:25:28 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-190-36-32.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:25:28 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-190-36-32.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:62523 Archived-At: Xah Lee wrote: > how can i check if a package already exists in the load path? > > what i want to do is to put a package into autoload, but don't do that > if that package is already included in user's load path (e.g. either > the package is included in the emacs version she's got, or she already > installed it herself). > > e.g. pseudo code: > > (when > (not (isPackageInstalledQ "ocaml-mode")) > (autoload ocaml-mode "~/xahdir/ocaml-mode" ) > ) (fboundp 'ocaml-mode) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA