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RE: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual |
Date: |
Tue, 12 May 2020 08:46:44 -0700 (PDT) |
I don't quite understand this part of your diff:
+The traditional way to install Emacs Lisp code is to either install it
+in the Emacs Lisp @dfn{load path} or to add the path to the code to
+the load path list.
What does it mean to "install" code in `load-path'?
And how does that differ from adding the directory or
file of the code to `load-path' (IOW, why the "or")?
I think all that's involved in the "traditional"
approach, to make a library loadable by `require' or
`load-library' or autoloading, is to add the
directory for the library to `load-path'.
Does that "install" the library? Dunno what that
word really means in this context. What it does is
make it possible for `require' and `load-library' to
locate and load the library; that's all (AFAIK).
Keep in mind that loading a library/file need not be
something done systematically (e.g. by `require' in
a file that gets loaded), or something done only by
autoloading. `load-library' is a command, to let
you load a library interactively.
Is there some clear definition of "installing" a
package in the doc? Probably, but I haven't checked.
(I don't think of "installing" as applying to a
library that you just load, but maybe I should. Is
"installing" a library, without using the package
system, defined anywhere in the doc?)
[BTW, for GNU Emacs, "path" means something different.
What you mean here is presumably the absolute file
name (of the directory or the file itself).]
- RE: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual, (continued)
- RE: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual, Drew Adams, 2020/05/11
- Re: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual, Stefan Monnier, 2020/05/10
- RE: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual, Drew Adams, 2020/05/11
- Re: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual, Stefan Monnier, 2020/05/11
- Re: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2020/05/11
- Re: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual, Stefan Monnier, 2020/05/11
- RE: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual, Drew Adams, 2020/05/11
- Re: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2020/05/11
- Re: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual, Stefan Monnier, 2020/05/11
- Re: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2020/05/11
- RE: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2020/05/12
- RE: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual, Drew Adams, 2020/05/12
- Re: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2020/05/12
- RE: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual, Drew Adams, 2020/05/12
- Re: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual, Stefan Monnier, 2020/05/12
- Re: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2020/05/12
- Re: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/16
- Re: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2020/05/16
- Re: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/16
- Re: "Emacs Lisp Packages" chapter in the Emacs manual, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2020/05/16