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From: yamada-sun!eric@AI.MIT.EDU (Eric Hanchrow)
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Subject: appending to load-path
   I want to add a directory onto the existing load-path. so I have the
   following entry in my .emacs file:
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   (append load-path (list "/usr2/guest/avi/elisp"))

   I then "eval" the variable "load-path" and the load-path has not changed.
That's because `append' does not modify its argument.  In fact, only a
few ELisp functions modify their arguments -- the only one I can think
of that does is `setq'.

Here's what I do:
	(setq load-path
	      (cons (expand-file-name "~eric/elisp")
	       (cons (expand-file-name "~eric/elisp/gnus") load-path))) 
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