Marius Hofert <marius.hof...@math.ethz.ch> wrote: > Thanks for the explanation. Is there also an equivalent solution by just > adjusting .emacs? > >
If you are going to use emacs extensively, you probably should read the emacs reference manual and maybe the emacs lisp introduction as well. M-x foo RET is entirely equivalent to evaluating (foo) which is a call to function foo. (foo) is the more general mechanism: it works for any lisp function, M-x foo works iff foo is a command (aka an "interactive" function). The form (foo) can be added to .emacs. load-library is a command that takes an argument: the name of the library to load. See its doc string for details. M-x load-library RET diary RET is entirely equivalent to evaluating (load-library "diary") This calls the function load-library with the string argument "diary". This form can be added to .emacs. Alternatively, you can use the require form that I posted: (require 'diary) Note that load-library takes a string as argument, whereas require takes a symbol. Nick > On 2011-11-08, at 23:33 , Jambunathan K wrote: > > >> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function diary-anniversary) > > > > There is a universal solution to this problem > > > > M-x load-library RET diary TAB > > > > and choose which of the options make most sense or try each one of them > > in turn. > > > > Note that in the above load-library you are using "diary" because it is > > the "prefix" of function (or variable) which reported as void. > > > > The load-library call unvoids the void things. > > > > > > >
