From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: news <"r.t.wilson(news)"@rmplc.co.uk> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How to install packages Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:09:17 +0100 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152009629 2764 80.91.229.2 (4 Jul 2006 10:40:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 10:40:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 04 12:40:27 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FxiKP-0005bk-P0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 12:40:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FxiKP-0007hs-9R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:40:25 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.pipex.net!news.pipex.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 05:09:18 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.179.182.3 Original-X-Trace: sv3-Rby/kQA3Mv1wifkK1YYY1qoDRrKWk0RCYxtR6p52tqHmt6DU/zkij60eRZf0UpHa+uKl4YD2jZY83II!YtwGnwfweeWlBbfXz/AXnKxuUSVgFlj/dGOccYx61Yp/Vpb0ComE+L8UcB8zxbOQ82WnsH1mIjDg!OowAU5cScP4= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@dsl.pipex.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@dsl.pipex.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140184 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:35809 Archived-At: Hi Sorry about posting again on here - hopefully eventually I'll learn enough so I can help others on here! My question at the moment is about installing packages. I managed to install mode-compile, by copying the .el file into a certain directory, making sure that directory was referenced in (add-to-list) in my .emacs and putting this in my .emacs as well: (autoload 'mode-compile "mode-compile" "Command to compile current buffer file based on the major mode" t) I am now trying to install the help+ package - which I have got as a file called help+.el and I've put it in the same directory as the mode-compile file, and then put this in my .emacs: (autoload 'help+ "help+" "Command to give better help" t) but it isn't working. Again I'm probably doing something silly here - but I'm not sure what. I also can't seem to find a simple guide to installing packages on the internet anywhere, and not all packages seem to have instructions at the top of their .el file. Cheers, Robin