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Re: [h-e-w] Initialization help needed
From: |
Simon Green |
Subject: |
Re: [h-e-w] Initialization help needed |
Date: |
Thu, 6 Dec 2001 10:30:05 +0000 |
>>>>> "BJ" == Bingham, Jay <address@hidden> writes:
BJ> I am trying to modularize my init files so that I can have some small
BJ> files that contain items that wary from one system to another. I have
BJ> run into a problem in attempting to do this on windows. I want to put
BJ> the expressions that add my own directories to the load path into one of
BJ> these small files. However I cannot figure out how to load the file. I
BJ> have tried (load "$HOME/myfile.el") and (load "~/myfile.el"). In both
Try using
(load (expand-file-name "~/myfile.el"))
instead.
expand-file-name is a built-in function.
Convert filename NAME to absolute, and canonicalize it.
Second arg DEFAULT-DIRECTORY is directory to start with if NAME is relative
(does not start with slash); if DEFAULT-DIRECTORY is nil or missing,
the current buffer's value of default-directory is used.
File name components that are `.' are removed, and
so are file name components followed by `..', along with the `..' itself;
note that these simplifications are done without checking the resulting
file names in the file system.
An initial `~/' expands to your home directory.
An initial `~USER/' expands to USER's home directory.
See also the function `substitute-in-file-name'.
(expand-file-name NAME &optional DEFAULT-DIRECTORY)
--Simon