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Re: long messages in minibuffers

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From: Brook Conner
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 16:12
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**> On Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:08:37 GMT, marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) said:

  Marc> Frank Caico writes:
> Here is an example: I have about 6 or 7 directories in my load-path and I
> want to see what is in it.  I eval the load-path but the result in the
> minibuffer is to long to fully display!   

  Marc> Go to your *scratch* buffer (which should be in Lisp Interaction mode)
  Marc> and type:

  Marc> (insert (format "%s" load-path))

  Marc> Then hit M-C-x.


Even easier: describe-variable load-path
Usually, this is bound to C-h v 
So C-h v load-path RET will do it.

For example, here's mine (quite a few more than 6 or 7), copied from
the *Help* buffer describe-variable produces:

load-path's value is ("/cs/lib/epoch/local/lisp/tek-highlight" "/u/dbc/src/emacs/dired" "/pro/info/hypb/" "/cs/lib/emacs/local/lisp/latexinfo/" "/cs/lib/epoch/local/lisp" "/cs/lib/epoch/epoch-4.2/epoch-lisp" "/cs/lib/emacs/local/lisp" "/cs/lib/emacs/dist-18.58/lisp" "/cs/lib/emacs/local/rsw-lisp" "/cs/lib/emacs/local/lisp" "/cs/lib/emacs/local/lisp/vm" "/cs/lib/emacs/local/lisp/gnus" "/cs/lib/emacs/local/lisp/outline-minor" "/cs/lib/emacs/local/lisp/latexinfo" "/cs/lib/emacs/dist/lisp" "/u/dbc/src/emacs" "

/u/dbc/src/epoch" "/pro/uga/lbin/lisp" "/cs/lib/emacs/local/lisp/vortex" "/cs/lib/emacs/local/lisp/superman" "/cs/lib/emacs/local/lisp/supercite")

Documentation:
*List of directories to search for files to load.
Each element is a string (directory name) or nil (try default directory).
Initialized based on EMACSLOADPATH environment variable, if any,
otherwise to default specified in by file paths.h when emacs was
built.

Brook



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Subject: Re: long messages in minibuffers
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