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Subject: Re: setq load-path bug in GNU Emacs?
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Date: 11 Feb 88 12:40:25 GMT
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   From: msb@ho5cad.ATT.COM
   Date: 8 Feb 88 14:59:34 GMT
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   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.