Re: Updating Elisp files while Emacs is running

[Joost Kremers]

Phillip Lord wrote:
> Likewise, for ELPA, as far as I know -- the load-path is set once during
> package-initialize, so if a new version of a package gets added, Emacs
> will run with the old.

Except that its directory will have been deleted. This means that if the
package is autoloaded (which is common) and you haven't actually *used*
(i.e., loaded) the package before upgrading, then when you do use it,
Emacs will look in the old location, won't find the package and throw up
an error.



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