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Re: gnuchess & EmacsChess - chess.el

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From: Kevin Rodgers
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:25

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sebyte wrote:

> ;;   (add-to-list 'load-list "<the path to Emacs Chess>")
> ;;
> ;;   (autoload 'chess "chess" "Play a game of chess" t)
> ;;
> ;; Now you can type `M-x chess', and play chess against anyone else in
> ;; the room with you, without having to install anything more.
> 
> First of all chess-player.el appears to be missing in the tarball I have 
> downloaded from the SourceForge project site.  Secondly, my .emacs can 
> only be successfully read if I change " 'load-list " to " 'load-path " 


Correct.

> but then, when I execute the command 'M-x chess', I get the following 
> message:
> 
> Cannot open load file: chess
> 
> Not being elisp enabled, I am at something of an impasse.  Any help much 
> appreciated.

You probably added the full pathname of chess.el to load-path, instead of

just the pathname of its directory.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

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