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From: nhess@dvlseq.oracle.com (Nate Hess)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Re: absolute paths in GNU emacs (18.55-berkeley unix)
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Date: 26 Feb 90 17:55:14 GMT
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In article <9002240247.AA13575@brauer.harvard.edu>, primer@BRAUER (Jeremy Primer) writes:
>It annoyed me somewhat that putting
>
>(setq load-path (cons "~/emacs/lisp" load-path))
>
>in my .emacs file failed to cause emacs to search my own lisp directory for
>elisp code.  Reason: emacs only likes to use absolute paths internally,

Well, "~/emacs/lisp" *is* an absolute path.  You just expect Emacs to
expand the "~" for you.  A way to have this done is to do something
like:

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


Hope this helps,
--woodstock
-- 
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	   and thinking...and suddenly you wake up."   - Hobbes

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