"Brenda J. Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi!
> Pardon my newbie question, but I'd like to ask an elementary
> emacs lisp question. Is there another mailing list I should
> be sending this to?
comp.emacs comes into mind.
> 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
> lisp, and the should the emacs-versioned versions of these
> directories come before or after the generic versions?
The first match is taken. Therefore, in your case, the old bbdb
installation in site-lisp is used, not the new one in your home
directory.
> load-path's value is
> ("/usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/tm"
[...]
> "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb"
[...]
> "/home/bjb/projects/bbdb/bbdb-2.2/lisp"
> "/usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/w3-el")
You have to prepend the new directory like in
(add-to-list 'load-path "/home/bjb/projects/bbdb/bbdb-2.2/lisp")
HTH,
norbert.
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