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Re: How do I load *.el files into Emacs?

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From: Brendan Kehoe
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 1991 03:15
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In <JEFF.91Jan2144743@anise.jpl.nasa.gov>, jeff@ANISE.JPL.NASA.GOV writes:
>In article <1990Dec31.101724.6378@news.cs.indiana.edu> anlhille@rose.ucs.indiana.edu (Joseph Hillenburg) writes:
>
> I have an irc.el file I want to read into Emacs. I'm new to Emacs itself, so
> how would I go about this?
>
>	Well, in your .emacsrc file just add the line:
		      .emacs
>(load "irc.el")		if irc.el is in your load path;  otherwise,
>	you could always use (if you're already running emacs):
>M-x load-file
>	and then respond with the full path name of the e-lisp file.

 Perhaps
	(autoload 'irc "irc" "Internet Relay Chat" t)

 would be better .. odds are you're not going to want to sit whilst
 Emacs loads irc *every* time you go into it. (Surely you'll use Emacs
 for more than an IRC interface. Use IRC II for that.)


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From: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe)
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Subject: Re: How do I load *.el files into Emacs?
Message-ID: <1991Jan03.031541.4269@cs.widener.edu>
Date: 3 Jan 91 03:15:41 GMT
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