Re: Warning (initialization): Your `load-path' seems to contain

[Ruben Maher]

Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:

> For some time now I've been getting this -
> Warning (initialization): Your `load-path' seems to contain
> your `.emacs.d' directory: /home/boudiccas/.emacs.d/
> This is likely to cause problems...
> Consider using a subdirectory instead, e.g.: /home/boudiccas/.emacs.d/lisp
> in my *Warnings* buffer.
>
> These are the relevant lines from my "init.el"
> (setq load-path (cons "/home/boudiccas/.emacs.d/lisp" load-path))
> (add-to-list 'load-path "/home/boudiccas/.emacs.d/personal-lisp")
>
> Why doesn't it accept what's in the "init.el" please, and what can I
> do to put it right?

Hi Sharon,

Emacs is not rejecting init.el, it's just warning you.  If you don't
want to see the warning anymore you can drop this snippet in there:

(eval-after-load "warnings"
  ;; shut up, emacs!
  '(setq display-warning-minimum-level :error))

Kind regards,

Ruben