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Re: Refer to the directory of the currently being loaded elisp script fr


From: Óscar Fuentes
Subject: Re: Refer to the directory of the currently being loaded elisp script from within the Emacs lisp file itself.
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:40:19 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:

>> BTW, the correct method for concatenating a directory and a file name is
>>
>> (load-file
>>   (concat
>>     (file-name-as-directory (file-name-directory load-file-name))
>>     "auth.el.gpg"))
>
> I tried you above code, it still doesn't work with the following info:
>
> file-name-as-directory: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil [2 times]
> Mark set

load-file-name is defined while the file is being loaded, after that it
is nil. So if you tried with `C-x C-e' or some other interactive command
it wont work.

Once the code above is in the correct file, save it, start Emacs and
report back what happens.




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