newbie question

[Markus Wawryniuk]

Hi Neil,

you have to put

(load "downloaded_file.elc")

in your .emacs. To create downloaded_file.elc: open downloaded_file.el
file with emacs and type

M-x byte-compile-buffer.

This should work.

Markus


Neil Blue writes:
 > Hello,
 > 
 > I have downloaded a *.el file with a command that I would like to make 
 > available every time I run emacs. Please could someont tell me how to 
 > set my .emacs file to evaluate the *.el file when it is started up. 
 > Thank you
 > 
 > Neil Blue
 > 
 > 
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