Mercurial > emacs
changeset 10659:a0efedb217ed
Explain load-path and dumping.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sat, 04 Feb 1995 08:14:52 +0000 |
| parents | 1912b355d49c |
| children | 0501556eef3a |
| files | lispref/loading.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/loading.texi Sat Feb 04 02:08:29 1995 +0000 +++ b/lispref/loading.texi Sat Feb 04 08:14:52 1995 +0000 @@ -172,6 +172,18 @@ to the front of @code{load-path} so the file can be found there. Newer Emacs versions also find such files in the current directory, but without altering @code{load-path}. + +Dumping Emacs uses a special value of @code{load-path}. If the value of +@code{load-path} at the end of dumping is unchanged (that is, still the +same special value), the dumped Emacs switches to the ordinary +@code{load-path} value when it starts up, as decribed above. But if +@code{load-path} has any other value at the end of dumping, that value +is used for execution of the dumped Emacs also. + +Therefore, if you want to change @code{load-path} temporarily for +loading a few libraries in @file{site-init.el} or @file{site-load.el}, +you should bind @code{load-path} locally with @code{let} around the +calls to @code{load}. @end defopt @defvar load-in-progress