bug#3446: marked as done (23.0.94; Emacs manual: add an example of adding a dir to `load-path')

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> 23.0.94; Emacs manual: add an example of adding a dir to `load-path'
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> Mon, 1 Jun 2009 15:07:50 -0700
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> A newbie in help-gnu-emacs tried to load an init file that had
> (require 'foobar) in it, and foobar.el wasn't in his load-path.
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> He then needed to know how to add a directory to the load-path. I
> wanted to point him to the manual, to teach him to fish, but I found
> nothing in the manual about this.
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> Everything in the manual about `load-path' just assumes you know how
> to add a directory to it. A simple example in the init-file section,
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> (add-to-list 'load-path "/my/directory/")
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> And load-path should be indexed to the init-file node.
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> In GNU Emacs 23.0.94.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2009-05-24 on SOFT-MJASON
> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)'
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> Re: 23.0.94; Emacs manual: add an example of adding a dir to `load-path'
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> Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:14:08 -0400
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> > A simple example in the init-file section,
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> > (add-to-list 'load-path "/my/directory/")
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> > And load-path should be indexed to the init-file node.
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> Fixed, thanks.
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