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From: rolf@gundog.lbl.gov (rolf ebert)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Emacs-ada-mode Installation Problems
Date: 16 Sep 1994 23:05:09 GMT
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Date: 1994-09-16T23:05:09+00:00
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the load path is the path where Emacs looks for input files. The online
documentation (C-h v load-path) gives (for me):

load-path's value is ("/u3/rolf/unix/elisp" "/u3/rolf/unix/elisp/devel" "/u7/rolf/gnu/lib/emacs/site-lisp" "/u7/rolf/gnu/lib/emacs/19.26/lisp")

Documentation:
*List of directories to search for files to load.
Each element is a string (directory name) or nil (try default directory).
Initialized based on EMACSLOADPATH environment variable, if any,
otherwise to default specified by file `paths.h' when Emacs was built.


You can add your personal extensions to Emacs with the following lines 
in your .emacs:

(defun add-to-load-path (directory-list)
  (mapcar (function (lambda (directory)
                      (or (member directory load-path)
                          (setq load-path (cons directory load-path)))))
	  directory-list))

;(add-to-load-path (list "/path/one"
;                        "/path/two"
;                        "/blah/blah/blah"))

(add-to-load-path (list (expand-file-name "~/elisp")
                        (expand-file-name "~/elisp/devel"))

This adds the 2 directories to the load-path. Put there your newly purchased
ada-mode.el and it should work now. 

Mail me if you still have problems.

	Rolf