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>On 9 Apr 91 14:05:00 GMT, allen@manic.ssc.gov (Mike Allen) said:

> You can change the path at any time by modifying the variable
> load-path.  For example, in my .emacs I do:
> (setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "~/emacs-lib")
> 		      (cons "/usr/local/emacs/lisp/local"
> 		      (cons "/usr/local/emacs/lisp" load-path))))

Except in one instance which you may be uninterested in.

I have found that due to a (let ) form in the file startup.el it is
impossible to change the load-path when running emacs in batch mode.  I
found this when trying to do some things like:

emacs -batch -l $HOME/.emacs-batch -f foo

where .emacs-batch adds directories to the load-path variable.  The
function foo loves in a file in one of those directories, but does not get
run because the code that load-files's .emacs-batch has a let form in it
that make the variable load-path local to the function.  This prevents any
changes to load-path from becoming "permanent".

I find this very annoying.

Lance
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