To set up auctex in Emacs you are told to include
(load "auctex.el" nil t t)
...etc. in your init/.emacs file. But if you installed auctex with elpa (which puts files in ~/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-11.86/), you have no auctex.el and the (load ...) fails. What should I do?
Instead of loading nonexistent auctex.el do
(require 'tex)
which initializes AUCTeX for me (Windows Emacs 24.3 and pdflatex from Cygwin). If you have MiKTeX, you would also need
(require 'tex-mik)
Another potential problem with the package from elpa is the tex-site.el which is supposed to be generated during installation and contain system-specific data but gets installed from elpa instead. You may want to examine the file and make corrections if needed (and copy it to some other location which is listed earlier in your load-path). For instance it has some unix paths which make no sense in Windows environment.
Your problem is most likely due to the package initialization problem discussed here: Emacs 24 Package System Initialization Problems
You need to call (package-initialize) before calling load to not get an error.
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I installed dired+ through list-packages (the folder was put in the elpa folder), and put '(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/elpa/")' in my init file (which I created myself), and '(require 'dired+) under. When I open emacs, I get an error telling me there's an error in my init file. If I remove the '(require 'dired+) line, the error stops, but again dired+ doesn't work when I call dired mode. The actual folder that was downloaded when I installed it is 'dired+-20130206.1702'. So I tried '(require dired+-20130206.1702), which again gave me an error on startup.
I'm at my wits end. I've tried everything I can think of, gone through the GNU emacs docs, googled the problem, looked at the answers here at Stack, and no luck. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm using Windows XP.
It's impossible to say for certain without seeing all the code, but you appear to be quoting your forms for no reason.
i.e., these:
'(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/elpa/")
'(require 'dired+)
should be:
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/elpa/")
(require 'dired+)
However that should just make them ineffectual, rather than causing errors directly.
Show us the code and the error message.
Edit:
Adding the /dired+/ to the end seemed to fix it ... Although I have no idea why. Any thoughts?
load-path holds a list of directories in which Emacs will look for libraries. It does not automatically descend into sub-directories, so you need to specify all relevant directories for your libraries. Your dired+ library is clearly in the ~/.emacs.d/elpa/dired+/ directory.
For menubarplus, you will similarly need to check to see which directory the library is in.
To be honest, I had thought that the package management in Emacs 24 would take care of this automatically; but as I've not been using it, I'm not certain.
Edit 2:
Yes, I suspect you have some other problem here. I just experimented with installing a library via the package manager (albeit from the default package repository, which doesn't include a dired+ package), and after restarting Emacs load-path contained the path for the new library without any intervention on my part.
I think Phils answered your question wrt loading Dired+ (specify the right directory, the one where you put dired+.el).
Wrt Menu-bar+, the feature name is menu-bar+, not menubarplus and not menu-barplus. So change your (require 'menubarplus) to (require 'menu-bar+).
How to install the slime into emacs under Win7?
I download a compact package with '.tgz'. But it seems for linux. But there is really not one thing for windows(win 32 OS).
I unfold this package and I find there are lots of documents.
It's actually the same as for other operating systems, as far as I can tell. (At least, it always worked for me under FreeBSD/ArchLinux/Win7.) First, you unpack to a location you like, then add something like this to your .emacs (assuming you unpacked somewhere under your user directory):
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/my/path/to/slime/")
;; (add-to-list 'load-path "~/my/path/to/slime/contrib/") ; for optional features
(slime-setup
;; '(slime-fancy slime-asdf slime-references ; optional features
;; slime-indentation slime-xref-browser)
)
(setq slime-lisp-implementations
'((ccl ("~/path/to/ccl/wx86cl"))
(clisp ("~/path/to/clisp-2.49/clisp" "-modern"))) ; giving a command arg
slime-default-lisp 'ccl)
Restart Emacs or type C-x C-e behind each of these toplevel forms. Then, type M-x slime RET (or C-u M-x slime RET if you want to choose between the implementations in slime-lisp-implementations, otherwise slime-lisp-default will be used) and it should just work (it does for me). The setting of slime-lisp-implementations is optional – you can also give the path to your lisp implementation executable by hand when starting Slime.
Assuming you want to use Slime with CL, since there is no Clojure tag. If you want to use it with Clojure, things are unfortunately a little different and both versions don't play very nicely together. The recommended way for use with Clojure, last time I checked, would be installation using the package system of Emacs 24 or, if you're using an older version, ELPA (which is essentially the same).
This worked for me,
Get a Slime copy from https://github.com/slime/slime, either by git clone or by downloading the zip. Unzip and save it in D:/myuser/slime-2.13, for example
Download and install CLISP
Add this to the .emacs file, usually located in C:/users/myuser/AppData/Roaming:
; This is the path where you've saved Slime in the first step
(add-to-list 'load-path "D:/myuser/slime-2.13/")
(require 'slime-autoloads)
; This is the path where CLISP was installed.
; Use Progra~1 for "Program Files" and Progra~2 for "Program Files (x86)"
(setq inferior-lisp-program "/C/Progra~2/clisp-2.49/clisp.exe")
I'm very new to emacs and I'm using version 23.2 on Windows. I'm trying to get CEDET working, but when I require it in .emacs it fails to find the file:
File error: Cannot open load file
I was able to get cedet working by loading it manually with:
(load "C:/emacs/lisp/cedet/cedet.el")
But I still can't require other files from cedet like semantic-gcc or semantic-ia.
Here's my .emacs file:
(load "C:/emacs/lisp/cedet/cedet.el")
(global-ede-mode t)
(semantic-mode 1)
;(semantic-load-enable-excessive-code-helpers)
(require 'semantic-ia)
(require 'semantic-gcc)
It's like emacs isn't looking for these files in its own path, and I did try
(add-to-list 'load-path "C:/emacs/lisp/cedet")
With a lot of other variations but none worked.
Firstly, you need to find the reason that cedet won't load with a simple (require 'cedet).
Is Emacs installed at c:\emacs? (ie the emacs.exe you are running is c:\emacs\bin\emacs.exe)
Is something setting EMACSLOADPATH externally from Emacs (your environment, or in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or HKEY_CURRENT_USER /Software/GNU/Emacs?
Is there another installation of an older version of CEDET on your load path?
Has c:\emacs\lisp\subdirs.el been edited to remove the cedet subdirectory?
Once you've solved that, note that the paths were changed when CEDET was merged into Emacs to accommodate old systems that have limitations on file name lengths. But at the same time, the autoloads were improved, so you shouldn't need to explicitly require those files any more. If you still do, the following should work:
(require 'semantic/ia)
(require 'semantic/bovine/gcc)
I happen to have two emacs on my Mac because of clojure setup.
The problem is that Cocoa emacs and Aquamacs uses the same ~/.emacs.d, but the ELPA of Cocoa emacs and that of Aquamacs are not compatible so that some files are overwritten and not usable for both of them.
Is there any way to tell Aquamacs not to use ~/.emacs.d for ELPA? I mean, can I change the default ELPA directory other than ~/.emacs.d ?
I use Aquamacs Starter Kt, but it seems that the ~/.emacs directory is used in init.el.
(unless (file-directory-p "~/.emacs.d/elpa")
(make-directory "~/.emacs.d/elpa" t))
I am not familiar with ELPA, but if aquamacs and carbon emacs are using different copies of package.el, you could try changing the definition of package-user-dir in one of them. In general I have found that using two different emacses on one machine is a recipe for baldness.
I'm trying to use slime from CVS (2009-01-05) but keep getting this error:
LOAD: A file with name
/usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp does not exist
I've stripped my .emacs down to just:
(setq inferior-lisp-program "/usr/bin/clisp")
(add-to-list 'load-path "/home/ssm/lisp/slime/")
(require 'slime)
(slime-setup)
I've deleted my ~/.slime directory, started with 'emacs -q' and eval'd the above code but I keep getting the LOAD error when I run slime (via M-x slime). Any ideas on how to fix this error?
FWIW, I've tried to install slime via apt-get but I keep getting errors there too about cl-swank being broken. That's a whole different story.
Have you purged the slime pkg you installed via apt-get? It looks like emacs is still reading the old site-specific configuration setup by apt-get. Try starting emacs with the -Q option, which prevents loading of site-specific (as well as user specific) customization, and see if the problem still occur.
I agree with huaiyuan that older files may be being picked up.
Try (load-file "/path/to/slime.el") instead of require. (You did remove the .elc files from your old versions, right? emacs will load from .elc files in preference to .el files, even when the .el is newer.)
The next thing to try is M-x customize-variable slime-backend and setting that to the absolute path of swank-loader.lisp. I think that will fix it for sure, but I am not sure why it doesn't work to begin with.
Thanks guys, ~/.emacs:
(setq inferior-lisp-program "<path-to-lisp-compiler>/bin/lisp")
(setq slime-backend "<path-to-slime>/swank-loader.lisp")
(add-to-list 'load-path "<path-to-slime>/")
;;(require 'slime)
(load-file "<path-to-slime>/slime.el")
;;(slime-setup)
(slime-setup '(slime-fancy))
works :)