Hi,
Pardon my newbie question, but I'd like to ask an elementary
emacs lisp question. Is there another mailing list I should
be sending this to?
My question is: what is the recommended order to make emacs
look in its load directories (what order to put directories
in EMACSLOADPATH), and what is the purpose of site-lisp vs
lisp, and the should the emacs-versioned versions of these
directories come before or after the generic versions?
I ask all this because I'm trying to install and use bbdb,
and it doesn't work. That may be because I have older
versions of bbdb lying around... I want to clean it up
but am not sure how it's "supposed" to look.
Definition of "it doesn't work": I'm running debian 2.2 on
a sparc station 20 (comes with emacs 20.7.2), and downloaded
bbdb 2.2 last night because I wanted to sync my palm os
Address Book to something :-)
I unzipped and installed the bbdb, and copied the files
to where there were already some other bbdb files (/usr/share/emacs
site-lisp/bbdb/lisp). I added (require 'bbdb) and (bbdb-initialize)
to my .emacs. Now emacs crashes on startup with
Fatal error (6).Aborted
I've tried removing all the old bbdb files, but not sure I've
got them all. It still crashes.
I looked at the load-path variable in a running emacs (after
commenting out the two lines from my .emacs) and the value is
a hairy: (I substituted linefeeds for spaces for a neater
mail message)
load-path's value is
("/usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/tm"
"/usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/auctex/"
"/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp"
"/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex"
"/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb"
"/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gettext"
"/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/hyperlatex"
"/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/python-elisp"
"/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tm"
"/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex/style"
"/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp"
"/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/tex"
"/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/utils"
"/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tm/support"
"/usr/share/emacs/20.7/site-lisp"
"/usr/share/emacs/20.7/site-lisp/auctex"
"/usr/share/emacs/20.7/site-lisp/gettext"
"/usr/share/emacs/20.7/site-lisp/hyperlatex"
"/usr/share/emacs/20.7/site-lisp/python-elisp"
"/usr/share/emacs/20.7/site-lisp/tm"
"/usr/share/emacs/20.7/site-lisp/w3-el"
"/usr/share/emacs/20.7/site-lisp/auctex/style"
"/usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp"
"/usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/textmodes"
"/usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/progmodes"
"/usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/play"
"/usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/mail"
"/usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/language"
"/usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/international"
"/usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/gnus"
"/usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/emulation"
"/usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/emacs-lisp"
"/usr/share/emacs/20.7/lisp/calendar"
"/home/bjb/projects/bbdb/bbdb-2.2/lisp"
"/usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/w3-el")
I'm not an emacs lisp hacker (yet) so I don't _think_ it was me who
added all those things (except the bjb/projects/bbdb one)?
Thanks in advance for whatever help you can send my way.
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