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From: msb@ho5cad.ATT.COM
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: setq load-path bug in GNU Emacs?
Message-ID: <272@ho7cad.ATT.COM>
Date: 8 Feb 88 14:59:34 GMT
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In-reply-to: karl@haddock.ISC.COM's message of 27 Jan 88 04:33:04 GMT

In article <2402@haddock.ISC.COM> karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer) writes:

   In article <724@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> cef@H.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Charles Fineman) writes:
   >[Since load-path doesn't like tildes], you might try the following:
   >   (setq load-path (cons (format "%s/.emacs" (getenv "HOME")) load-path))

   I ran into this problem, too.  I think a better solution is
       (setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "~/lib/emacs") load-path))

   Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint

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My first question:
	Why is this a "better solution"?

My second question:
	I am just starting to learn some of this GNU .el stuff -- I'd
looked a bit into the UniPress .ml stuff.  Since there is not a
'tutorial' on the language, I'd be interested to hear from some
experienced .el-programmers.  All of the following were proposed as
solutions to the original problem.  Are any of the following good/bad,
correct/incorrect, efficient/inefficient, etc?

(setq load-path (cons (format "%s/.emacs" (getenv "HOME")) load-path))

(setq load-path (concat (getenv "HOME") "/elisp-library") load-path)

(setq load-path (cons (substitute-in-file-name "$HOME/emacs") load-path))

(setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "~/lib/emacs") load-path))


Sorry I couldn't give specific credit to the authors of the lines --
you can look them up for yourself in previous net-news articles.


My third question:
	Is it true that there is no 'tutorial' on the elisp language?



Thanks in advance for any help -- I'm sure that others will appreciate
it also.