From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib <4uce.02.r.steib@gmx.net> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: (setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/lisp") load-path)) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 21:15:12 +0200 Organization: Dept. of Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3D8A108D.8090309@ihs.com> Reply-To: reiner.steib@gmx.de NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032463555 22288 127.0.0.1 (19 Sep 2002 19:25:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 19:25:55 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17s6vx-0005n9-00 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 21:25:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17s6wK-0000Ae-00; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:26:16 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: .*T0'iU(sujq_j9\J>-d4fg;N/1++U#U$_5ii6k.=|"-n'?5O:Hyz&wi'-!I~,}7~GgT=0S /&-R5sbkNy5+Xo1y{Tw2KKxi@Xh"g@]Qc|.U<*]WDd)qvGowFDvfU1F]{EDho:7P0@|oOD=Bc{K4?> WP68K[Mx:}=`ZT'6g4'f+g?;`vri2!)xGy}3:=l'(/Cea0l4lo^H5#@/Z3ev Original-Lines: 36 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XyHbCJRnVbLyUWJFU/7Bx67jnCI= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: theotp5.physik.uni-ulm.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-ulm.de 1032462920 theotp5.physik.uni-ulm.de (19 Sep 2002 21:15:20 +0200) Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!194.25.134.62!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!theotp5.physik.uni-ulm.de!nobody Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:105084 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1638 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1638 On Thu, Sep 19 2002, Kevin Rodgers wrote: > Reiner Steib wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 19 2002, valfather@hotmail.com wrote: >>> I added that to my .gnu-emacs but it doesn't seem to modify the load-path >>> variable. >> ".gnu-emacs"? I've seen this on SuSE Linux systems, but Emacs usually >> is looking for "~/.emacs". Are you sure, that ".gnu-emacs" is used? > > `C-h v user-init-file RET' It's clear, that there are billions of possibilities to load a file named ".gnu-emacs". ;-) But the OP mentioned that `load-path' wasn't modified, so it's suggesting to assume that the file was not loaded, as the lisp code is correct. FYI: What SuSE does (or at least did) is... ,----[ /etc/skel/.emacs ] | (if (string-match "XEmacs\\|Lucid" emacs-version) | (progn | XEmacs-stuff-here) | (progn | (if (file-readable-p "~/.gnu-emacs") | (load "~/.gnu-emacs" nil t) | Emacs-stuff-here))) `---- (no, I wouldn't recommend this) Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- PGP key available via WWW http://rsteib.home.pages.de/