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In article <9006182036.AA13225@bach.cs.byu.edu> mike@BACH.CS.BYU.EDU
(Mike Burbidge) writes:

>I created a directory in my home directory that I want to contain compiled
>elisp files that I have written myself. By setting the load-path variable
>appropriately in my .emacs file will emacs automatically load files ending
>in .elc in the specified directories? This is what I assume and it doesn't
>work.

        Since you weren't any more specific than "it doesn't work"
it's difficult to guess at what went wrong for you. Here are a couple
of possibilities. First, the load-path variable is a list, just like
your Unix path. If you have replacements (with identical names) for
standard emacs lisp files, yours will override the default *if* you
put your directory in front of the standard directory list (usually
consisting of just one directory) *and if* you change load-path before
those files are loaded (or specifically re-load them with the load
function). Finally, remeber that you must tack your directory onto the
list, not just change the variable; otherwise emacs will look *only*
in your directory, and won't continue on the the standard directory
for things you don't have copies of.

	Here's what I have in my .emacs file, and it seems to work fine:

    (setq load-path  (cons (expand-file-name "~/Emacs/lisp") load-path))	

        BTW it will look first for a .elc file but will settle for a
.el file if the former isn't found.

	Hope this helps.


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