GNU bug report logs - #3446
23.0.94; Emacs manual: add an example of adding a dir to `load-path'

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Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 22:10:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: <emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 23.0.94; Emacs manual: add an example of adding a dir to `load-path'
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 15:07:50 -0700

A newbie in help-gnu-emacs tried to load an init file that had
(require 'foobar) in it, and foobar.el wasn't in his load-path.
 
He then needed to know how to add a directory to the load-path. I
wanted to point him to the manual, to teach him to fish, but I found
nothing in the manual about this.
 
Everything in the manual about `load-path' just assumes you know how
to add a directory to it. A simple example in the init-file section,
would help:
 
(add-to-list 'load-path "/my/directory/")
 
And load-path should be indexed to the init-file node.
 

In GNU Emacs 23.0.94.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2009-05-24 on SOFT-MJASON
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)'
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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 3446-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.94; Emacs manual: add an example of adding a dir to `load-path'
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:14:08 -0400

> A simple example in the init-file section,
> would help:
> 
> (add-to-list 'load-path "/my/directory/")
> 
> And load-path should be indexed to the init-file node.

Fixed, thanks.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com. (Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:24:19 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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