From: Glenn Morris <rgm+news@stanford.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: subdirs works for emacs but fails for me -- why?
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:45:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mv4optsk8q.fsf@xoc2.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1aaaca55-b0be-4519-841c-156baf9a6705@13g2000prl.googlegroups.com
rustom wrote:
> When emacs finds such a file it adds the subdirs to the load-path
> If I put a similar file in my load-path it does not do any good.
subdirs.el is an internal mechanism that by design only works for
"standard" Emacs directories, not any that you might happen to add to
load-path (eg in .emacs).
> Also why the fboundp stuff?
Perhaps for compatibility for Emacs versions without this function, eg
if they happen to share site-lisp directories.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-20 23:45 UTC|newest]
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2009-10-15 17:54 subdirs works for emacs but fails for me -- why? rustom
2009-10-20 23:45 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2009-10-21 4:13 ` Kevin Rodgers
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