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Re: How to tell which *.el file loaded?
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Lawrence Mitchell |
Subject: |
Re: How to tell which *.el file loaded? |
Date: |
Wed, 26 May 2004 10:38:04 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 |
bill wrote:
> Is there a simple way to confirm which of several possible foo.el
> files in the system was loaded by (require 'foo) ? (I'm thinking
> along the lines of something I can stick in the desired foo.el that
> will confirm to me that it was it that was loaded by (require 'foo)
> .)
Doing (locate-library "foo") will tell you which foo.el or
foo.elc Emacs found. Emacs prefers byte-compiled (foo.elc) over
source (foo.el) files, so, should you modify foo.el, and a
foo.elc exists, you'll have to recompile it.
You can also look at the output of
M-x list-load-path-shadows RET
--
Lawrence Mitchell <wence@gmx.li>