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From: baxter@navajo (Ray Baxter)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Help
Summary: How do I add an item to the path?
Message-ID: <2053@navajo.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 88 21:32:15 GMT
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Organization: Biological Sciences, Stanford University
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Can anyone tell me the best proceedure for adding another directory
to my gnuemacs load-path?  I would like to be able to add a statement
to my .emacs directory that would cause emacs to search my personal
directory of e-lisp functions.  I have tried

	(setq load-path (list load-path "~/emacs"))

which seems to give the correct value, but when I call an autoloaded
function I get the message

	Wrong type argument: stringp, ("/usr/local/emacs/lisp")

"/usr/local/emacs/lisp" was the original value of load-path.

I know that I could setenv EMACSLOADPATH "/usr/local/emacs/lisp ~/emacs",
I was just hoping for a more general solution because there are other
variables which I would like to extend.

While on the subject, can anyone describe the various data types used
in e-lisp?  Or better yet refer me to a printed or on-line source of
information.  

Thank you in advance.
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