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From: crew@CS.Stanford.EDU (Roger Crew)
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Subject: Re: appending to load-path
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Date: 17 Feb 91 02:49:29 GMT
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In article <74918@bu.edu.bu.edu> avi@bu-pub.bu.edu (Avram Weiss) writes:
> 
> I want to add a directory onto the existing load-path. so I have the
> following entry in my .emacs file:
> 
> (append load-path (list "/usr2/guest/avi/elisp"))
> 
should be 

    (setq load-path (append load-path (list "/usr2/guest/avi/elisp")))

though perhaps you want your files to take precedence over the
standard distribution ones, in which case it should be

    (setq load-path (cons "/usr2/guest/avi/elisp" load-path))

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