Re: Please help with slime initialisation

[Alex Kost]

Guido Van Hoecke (2014-10-05 00:11 +0400) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I added slime to my configuration via package management.
>
> My load-path
> variable contains the correct load-path:
>   "/Users/guivho/.emacs.d/elpa/slime-20141002.1224"
>
> This directory contains a slime-autoloads.el ending with a
>   (provide 'slime-autoloads)
>
> My .emacs has a
>
>   (require 'slime-autoloads)
>
> line but it complains that it does
> not find it, unless I explicitely precede this require line with:
>
>   (add-to-list 'load-path (concat emacsd-dir "elpa/slime-20141002.1224"))
>
> which adds a second "/Users/guivho/.emacs.d/elpa/slime-20141002.1224" to
> my load-path.
>
> Why does it only work with this additional entry in the load-path list?

Because Emacs autoloads those "~/.elpa" packages only after loading a
user init file.  See (info "(emacs) Package Installation").

A usual practice is to have:

  (setq package-enable-at-startup nil)
  (package-initialize)

in your .emacs (before requiring anything from elpa dir).