> * In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * On the subject of "emacs lisp"
> * Sent on Sun, 10 Dec 2000 11:41:27 -0500
> * Honorable "Brenda J. Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Is there another mailing list I should be sending this to?
news:gnu.emacs.help
news:comp.emacs
> My question is: what is the recommended order to make emacs
> look in its load directories (what order to put directories
> in EMACSLOADPATH), and what is the purpose of site-lisp vs
/usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp is the directory for the lisp files that come
with your Emacs 20.7 distribution.
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp is the directory for the site-specific
(locally installed, varying from site to site) lisp files
used with all emacs distributions.
/usr/share/emacs/20.7/site-lisp is the directory for the site-specific
lisp files used only with Emacs 20.7.
> lisp, and the should the emacs-versioned versions of these
> directories come before or after the generic versions?
(load "xyz") will look for xyz, xyz.elc or xyz.el in all directories in
`load-path' (and their subdirectories in e21), loading the first one it
finds.
use (add-to-list 'load-path "/your/path/").
> I ask all this because I'm trying to install and use bbdb,
> and it doesn't work. That may be because I have older
> versions of bbdb lying around... I want to clean it up
> but am not sure how it's "supposed" to look.
M-x locate-library RET is your friend.
> I unzipped and installed the bbdb, and copied the files
> to where there were already some other bbdb files (/usr/share/emacs
> site-lisp/bbdb/lisp). I added (require 'bbdb) and (bbdb-initialize)
> to my .emacs. Now emacs crashes on startup with
> Fatal error (6).Aborted
Oops! This often means that you load some *.elc compiled with a
different version. Unfortunately, files compiled with XEmacs cannot be
loaded into Emacs and vice versa. Often emacs does not nicely detect
that the file is `bad' and segfaults.
You should definitely try to investigate this further: check which
statement in .emacs causes the crash, and make sure that all files you
load have been compiled with the emacs you are using. Then, if the
crash persists, you should submit a bug report (use M-x report-emacs-bug
RET).
> ("/usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/tm"
> "/usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/auctex/"
> "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tm"
> "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/style"
> "/usr/share/emacs/20.7/site-lisp/auctex"
> "/usr/share/emacs/20.7/site-lisp/tm"
this is a bad sign - you have several installations of the same package.
you should investigate this: maybe they are different versions and you
are loading some parts from one installation and other from the others.
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