From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: using string variable with file name
Date: 23 Feb 2008 13:03:30 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnfs06i5.kll.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: fpp2q8$5f9$1@news.net.uni-c.dk
saneman wrote:
> When using you last advice:
> (setq load-path (cons "~/work/mylisp" load-path))
> (load-file "setnu.el")
>
> I get the error:
> File error: "Cannot open load file", "/home/saneman/setnu.el"
my bad, i should have used load instead of load-file:
(load "setnu.el")
> Seems that the load-path is not updated.
it is. the problem is that load-file expands the file name you pass to it
to an absolute path before it calls load. IOW it doesn't search the
load-path at all.
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Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com
Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-23 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-23 11:53 using string variable with file name saneman
2008-02-23 12:00 ` Joost Kremers
2008-02-23 12:16 ` saneman
2008-02-23 12:44 ` Johan Bockgård
2008-02-23 13:03 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2008-02-23 16:49 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2008-02-23 23:45 ` Daniel Pittman
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