Please help with slime initialisation

Please help with slime initialisation

[Guido Van Hoecke]

Hi,

I added slime to my configuration via package management. 

My load-path
variable contains the correct load-path:
  "/Users/guivho/.emacs.d/elpa/slime-20141002.1224"

This directory contains a slime-autoloads.el ending with a 
  (provide 'slime-autoloads)

My .emacs has a 

  (require 'slime-autoloads) 

line but it complains that it does
not find it, unless I explicitely precede this require line with: 

  (add-to-list 'load-path (concat emacsd-dir "elpa/slime-20141002.1224")) 

which adds a second "/Users/guivho/.emacs.d/elpa/slime-20141002.1224" to
my load-path.

Why does it only work with this additional entry in the load-path list?

Please advise,


Guido

--
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

Re: Please help with slime initialisation

[Alex Kost]

Guido Van Hoecke (2014-10-05 00:11 +0400) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I added slime to my configuration via package management.
>
> My load-path
> variable contains the correct load-path:
>   "/Users/guivho/.emacs.d/elpa/slime-20141002.1224"
>
> This directory contains a slime-autoloads.el ending with a
>   (provide 'slime-autoloads)
>
> My .emacs has a
>
>   (require 'slime-autoloads)
>
> line but it complains that it does
> not find it, unless I explicitely precede this require line with:
>
>   (add-to-list 'load-path (concat emacsd-dir "elpa/slime-20141002.1224"))
>
> which adds a second "/Users/guivho/.emacs.d/elpa/slime-20141002.1224" to
> my load-path.
>
> Why does it only work with this additional entry in the load-path list?

Because Emacs autoloads those "~/.elpa" packages only after loading a
user init file.  See (info "(emacs) Package Installation").

A usual practice is to have:

  (setq package-enable-at-startup nil)
  (package-initialize)

in your .emacs (before requiring anything from elpa dir).

Re: Please help with slime initialisation

[Guido Van Hoecke]

Hi Alex,

Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:

> Because Emacs autoloads those "~/.elpa" packages only after loading a
> user init file.  See (info "(emacs) Package Installation").
>
> A usual practice is to have:
>
>   (setq package-enable-at-startup nil)
>   (package-initialize)
>
> in your .emacs (before requiring anything from elpa dir).

Thanks Alex. 
This is indeed very clearly described in info. 
Should have read this before causing noise. 
So sorry.


Guido

--
Ain't no right way to do a wrong thing.
		-- The Mad Dogtender

Re: Please help with slime initialisation

[Tu, Do]

Vào 03:11:07 UTC+7 Chủ nhật, ngày 05 tháng mười năm 2014, guivho đã viết:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> I added slime to my configuration via package management. 
> 
> 
> 
> My load-path
> 
> variable contains the correct load-path:
> 
>   "/Users/guivho/.emacs.d/elpa/slime-20141002.1224"
> 
> 
> 
> This directory contains a slime-autoloads.el ending with a 
> 
>   (provide 'slime-autoloads)
> 
> 
> 
> My .emacs has a 
> 
> 
> 
>   (require 'slime-autoloads) 
> 
> 
> 
> line but it complains that it does
> 
> not find it, unless I explicitely precede this require line with: 
> 
> 
> 
>   (add-to-list 'load-path (concat emacsd-dir "elpa/slime-20141002.1224")) 
> 
> 
> 
> which adds a second "/Users/guivho/.emacs.d/elpa/slime-20141002.1224" to
> 
> my load-path.
> 
> 
> 
> Why does it only work with this additional entry in the load-path list?
> 
> 
> 
> Please advise,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Guido
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

You may one to checkout this excellent SO answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1101605/496700

It is the answer that helped me to easily Setup Common Lisp environment when I first started.