bug#7665: Emacs: add command line option -L to set more paths to load-path

[Jari Aalto]

2010-12-18 00:05 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:
| > An example:
| >     emacs -L ~/elisp/package -L ~/.emacs.d/downloaded -l my-test.el
| 
| I don't understand this example: why ~/elisp/package and
| ~/.emacs.d/downloaded?  What are these directories and how are they
| related to my-test.el?

Just like Drew explained. The above would effectively do:

    (add-to-list 'load-path "~/elisp/package")
    (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/downloaded")
    (load-library "my-test.el")

Paths and file names in the example were arbitrary and non-important.

The -L would also be useful for setting load-path prior byte
compiling files that require other files.

Jari