I got the doremi-frm.el from http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/doremi-frm.el by clicking on the download, which opened a new page with the file in it, then I copy and past into the scratch buffer, saved it in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/doremi-frm.el, put (require 'doremi-frm) in the first line of my .emacs
M-x load-file ~/.emacs cann't open load file: doremi did I do something wrong? No, you did everything right. But not enough. Emacs-Lisp libraries often require other libraries. In this case, `doremi-frm.el' requires `doremi.el'. In fact, it also requires other libraries, besides `doremi.el'. You will see this comment in doremi-frm.el: ;; Library `doremi-frm' requires these libraries: ;; ;; `avoid', `doremi', `faces', `faces+', `frame-cmds', `frame-fns', ;; `hexrgb', `icomplete', `icomplete+', `misc-fns', `mwheel', `ring', ;; `ring+', `strings', `thingatpt', `thingatpt+'. Not all of those libraries are absolutely required, however. To determine what you absolutely need: - Look for `(require...)' in doremi-frm.el. - Load those files. - Look in those files for `(require...)'. - Etc. Any `(require...)' of this form: (require 'something nil t) is *optional* - the library is not absolutely required. It is the third arg `t' that signals this. In `doremi-frm.el', for example you see this: (require 'doremi) (require 'hexrgb) (require 'ring+) (require 'frame-fns) (require 'faces+) (require 'frame-cmds nil t) (unless (fboundp 'read-number)(require 'strings nil t)) (eval-when-compile (require 'cl)) The first group of `require's are mandatory, for `doremi-frm.el' to work. The second group (frame-cmds, strings) are optional. Both of these groups are my libraries - they are not included with standard Emacs. So, you will need to download all libraries in the first group, for `doremi-frm.el' to work. (And some of those libraries might require you to download other libraries.) You do not need to download `frame-cmds.el' or `strings.el'. The last `require' is a compile-time-only require, and library `cl.el' is a standard Emacs library, so you do not need to download anything for this dependency. HTH. _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs