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Re: emacs not loading package via load-path
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: emacs not loading package via load-path |
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Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:16:30 -0400 |
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In article <mailman.6594.1344456250.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Ferdinand <Ferdinand.Gruebler@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to use ESS (emacs speaks statistics).
> Therefore I put the ess-site.el in a directory that I added to the load-path
> variable in my .emacs file:
>
> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/documents/emacs/load on startup/ess/lisp/")
> (require ¹ess-site)
>
>
> This doesn't work. I get an error on startup (Symbol's value as variable is
> void: ¹ess-site)
The problem is that you've entered a "smart quote" before ess-site,
instead of a regular apostrophe. Notice that the quote before ess-site
is different from the one before load-path.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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