Comments on: fixing emacs “cannot open load file” errors

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 23:36:31 +0000

I thought I have to say thank you for sharing I have been trying to do so and with no success it was just frustrating .
thanks again

By: Nils

Nils — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 07:40:00 +0000

THANKS!

This worked for me. What not worked was symlinks from .emacs.d/ to the directory containing the *.el files.

By: duan5

duan5 — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:54:06 +0000

Thanks for the tip.

It helped me fix a “cannot open load file: gnuplot” error for emacs org-mode Org-babel-gnuplot on MacOS.

I had to add to my .emacs :

(add-to-list ‘load-path “/opt/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/”)

despite this path is the native installation path of
Emacs on MacOSX.
Emacs version 24.1.0, org-mode version 7.8.11

By: Filippo

Filippo — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 07:52:35 +0000

Great!

By: punya

punya — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:35:53 +0000

Thanks for the valuable information.
It helped me to set matlab mode.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:44:41 +0000

Thanks for the tip, I thought (require ‘program) was all I needed.

By: Rob Stewart

Rob Stewart — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:09:39 +0000

Here’s a shell script I use:

#!/bin/bash

usage()
{
echo >&2 “$0 [-d directory [directory ...]] file.el [file.el ...]

where is added to the load-path during compilation.”
[ $# -eq 0 ] || echo >&2 ”
$@”
exit 1
}

while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
case $1 in
–help|-h|-’?') usage;;
-d)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || usage “Missing directory argument for -d”
DIRECTORIES=”$DIRECTORIES $2″; shift
;;
*) break;;
esac
shift
done

for directory in $DIRECTORIES; do
LOAD_PATH=”$LOAD_PATH –directory=$directory”
done

for file in “$@”; do
cd $(dirname $file)
emacs -batch -no-init-file $LOAD_PATH -f batch-byte-compile $file
done

By: Krishnan

Krishnan — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:24:11 +0000

Great! It worked for me for setting up the matlab mode.

By: Isabelle

Isabelle — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:59:19 +0000

Thanks for the tip .. I was using wrong syntax for my path (C:\Users\…)