primer@BRAUER.HARVARD.EDU (Jeremy Primer) (02/24/90)
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, objected to the use of "~" in a directory name. In short, I became the "luser" in the function "openp()" in lread.c. I can live with that. If emacs wants its internal paths to be absolute, then that makes sense to me. What bothered me much more was that the same treatment was given to paths specified in the environment, i.e. setenv EMACSLOADPATH "~/emacs/lisp:/usr/local/lib/emacs/lisp" also luses for the same reason. This is bad, since people have been specifying relative paths in their .login's for years. Please hack decode_env_path() to expand relative paths in the next release. Or, alternatively, if I am mistaken and emacs is supposed to deal with relative paths internally, then I guess openp() needs fixing. Jeremy Primer primer@math.harvard.edu
nhess@dvlseq.oracle.com (Nate Hess) (02/27/90)
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 -- "What I like is when you're looking and thinking and looking and thinking...and suddenly you wake up." - Hobbes nhess@oracle.com or ...!uunet!oracle!nhess or (415) 598-3046
bbc@libya.rice.edu (Benjamin Chase) (02/27/90)
primer@BRAUER.HARVARD.EDU (Jeremy Primer) complains: [Emacs doesn't expand occurrences of `~' in load-path. Can decode_env_path by taught to do this?] I concur. Lacking this (either for the time being, or permanently), I recommend: (setq-default load-path (mapcar 'expand-file-name load-path)) in your .emacs. -- Ben Chase <bbc@rice.edu>, Rice University, Houston, Texas
rbr4@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Roland Roberts) (02/28/90)
In article <1990Feb26.175514.10768@oracle.com> nhess@dvlseq.oracle.com (Nate Hess) writes: >.... 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)) > >nhess@oracle.com or ...!uunet!oracle!nhess or (415) 598-3046 Unfortunately, this doesn't work on VMS. You get the following: (expand-file-name "~/emacs/") "user$disk2:[roberts]EMACS:" (expand-file-name "~/public/cd/") "user$disk2:[roberts]PUBLIC:[CD]" This just means I have to put in the explicit path, which is no big deal for setting the load-path, but it is a pain that find-file will accept "~/file-name" but not "~/subdir/file-name". One has to use the mixed notation "~/[.subdir]file-name". roland -- Roland Roberts, University of Rochester BITNET: roberts@uornsrl Nuclear Structure Research Lab INTERNET: rbr4@uhura.cc.rochester.edu 271 East River Road UUCP: rochester!ur-cc!rbr4 Rochester, NY 14267 AT&T: (716) 275-8962