Re: Installing matlab mode under Windows XP

[Kevin Rodgers]

Glenn Morris wrote:
> Kevin Rodgers wrote:
>
> > Then create a subdirs.el file in the directory (e.g. ~/emacs/subdirs.el)
> > with these contents:
> >
> > (if (fboundp 'normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path)
> >      (normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path))
>
> Will that actually do anything in this case? I thought that because of
> the order in which Emacs does things at startup, any additions made to
> load-path in ~/.emacs don't get scanned for subdirs.el files. At least
> this was the case three years ago:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2003-04/msg00315.html

Indeed, a simple experiment shows you're correct.  Sorry about that!

So OP has to do it explicitly in ~/.emacs:

(setq load-path (cons "~/emacs" load-path))

(let ((default-directory "~/emacs"))
  (normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path))

--
Kevin