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- From: kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher)
- Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help
- Subject: Re: Accessing lisp code in ~/emacs/lisp
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.064851.2617@digi.lonestar.org>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 06:48:51 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.163317.7594@vpbuild.vp.com> <ESH.92Nov20113951@nitrogen.tss.com>
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- In article <ESH.92Nov20113951@nitrogen.tss.com> esh@nitrogen.tss.com (Edward S. Hirgelt) writes:
- >
- >On 20 Nov 92 16:33:17 GMT,
- >jessea@vpmeu015.me.vp.com (Jesse W. Asher) said:
- >
- >Jesse> I would like our programmers to be able to modify the lisp files in
- >Jesse> ~/emacs/lisp and have emacs use those file. Unfortunately, our emacs
- >Jesse> (GNU) isn't even looking at those files when they are modified.
-
- If your load path is NOT the problem, then the following may explain what is
- happening to you. Certain emacs lisp files, which contain frequently used
- functions, are pre-loaded into the emacs program image at install time. This
- is configurable when emacs is built. Thus, when you start up a buffer in C
- mode, for example, nothing is loaded from the emacs/lisp directory since it is
- already in memory. C mode support is almost always pre-loaded. To override
- previously loaded lisp functions with newer versions automatically, you must
- force them to be re-loaded by explicit use of the load function in your .emacs
- file.
-
- >A further note, don't try to put ~/anything in the list. Use
- >expand-file-name to get ~ expanded. If you want to have environment
- >variables expanded also use substitute-in-file-name. You can use both if
- >necessary. See info for details.
-
- This is necessary on some systems, but by no means on all. Use of
- expand-file-name will always work, but it is unnecessary on my system. It
- expands ~ just fine.
-
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