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Re: emacs not loading package via load-path


From: Jack Kelly
Subject: Re: emacs not loading package via load-path
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 07:34:53 +1000

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 6:04 AM, 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 ’ess-site)
>
>
> This doesn't work. I get an error on startup (Symbol's value as variable is 
> void: ’ess-site)
> and I can't open an R session which tells me that the crucial .el file was 
> not loaded.
>
> When I load the ess-site.el manually or add this to .emacs:
> (load "~/documents/sonstiges/emacs/load on startup/ess/lisp/ess-site.el")
> it all works fine.

These paths are not the same, and I don't know if that's an error in
your email or in your .emacs. (The second has "sonstiges" between
"documents" and "emacs".)

-- Jack



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