Subject: bug#16406: load prefers directories rather than searching load-path

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 12:35:22 -0400

tags 16406 patch
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Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> writes:

> Package: emacs
> Version: 24.3
>
> From the Emacs source directory, wanting to load the standard info.el library:
>
> ./src/emacs -Q -l info
>
>   Cannot open load file: is a directory, /tmp/emacs/trunk/info
>
> It seems dumb for load prefer a directory.

Seems simple enough to fix, here is a patch (this also covers #17848
"add suffix search to -l even when directory part in argument"):

>From 38faf8846f7738b533aa29622fd7f78a8c6c81cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 10:51:38 -0400
Subject: [PATCH v1] Improvements to --load argument handling

* lisp/startup.el (command-line-1): Search for files with load-suffixes
in default dir (Bug #17484).  Only pass normal files that were found,
since `load' doesn't handle directories (Bug #16406).
---
 lisp/startup.el | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/startup.el b/lisp/startup.el
index fcdc376..9134604 100644
--- a/lisp/startup.el
+++ b/lisp/startup.el
@@ -2392,8 +2392,9 @@ command-line-1
                                    (or argval (pop command-line-args-left))))
                             ;; Take file from default dir if it exists there;
                             ;; otherwise let `load' search for it.
-                            (file-ex (expand-file-name file)))
-                       (when (file-exists-p file-ex)
+                            (file-ex (locate-file file (list default-directory)
+                                                  load-suffixes)))
+                       (when (and file-ex (file-regular-p file-ex))
                          (setq file file-ex))
                        (load file nil t)))
 
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2.9.2