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From: kim@spock (Kim Letkeman)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: load-path
Message-ID: <3829@kim>
Date: 7 Jul 90 15:50:52 GMT
References: <9007051730.AA01785@curley.osf.org>
Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.
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In-reply-to: meissner@osf.org's message of 5 Jul 90 17:30:52 GMT

I didn't see the original article, and the reply in which I saw this
question did not post an attribution, so I'm hoping the original
poster is still looking for the answer.

| I have been recently compiling up GNU emacs 18.55 and have run into a bit of a
| problem with the load-path variable.  The default load-path on our system is
| "/usr/local/emacs/lisp".  I would like to ADD to the list "/usr/local/lisp".
| 
| I tried setting it in "site-init.el" when compiling.  I used:
| 
| (setq load-path (append (list "/usr/local/lisp") load-path))
| 
| This had NO EFFECT.  When I fired up the new emacs and checked to see what my
| load-path was is only showed "/usr/local/emacs/lisp".  Putting the 'setq'
| statement into the default.el helps, but if someone needs that path for things
| in their ~/.emacs file, it causes an init file error (and rightfully so).  

I am certain that there is some standard way to have a local lisp
directory on the emacs path without resorting to the emacs load path
environment variable. But the following change to your original setq
on load-path works for me to add my local directory to the emacs path.
Note the addition of the append in front of load-path.

(setq load-path (append (list (expand-file-name "~kim/elisp")) 
			(append load-path)))

Kim


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Kim Letkeman    mitel!spock!kim@uunet.uu.net