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Laura Conrad <lconrad@world.std.com> writes:

> (push (expand-file-name "~lconrd/src/gnus-5.8.2/lisp") load-path)
> 
> For some reason, the version you tried, which is in the
> instructions, never worked for me either.

Except that it has to work, because the `push' statements evaluates to
that.  Watch this:

(macroexpand
 '(push (expand-file-name "~lconrd/src/gnus-5.8.2/lisp") load-path))

 ==> (setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "~lconrd/src/gnus-5.8.2/lisp")
                           load-path))

Maybe the problem is that I didn't stress the use of
`expand-file-name' in my last example.  I thought I'd convey the
message that the path is absolute by using /path/to/.../.  Obviously,
the message didn't get across.

In XEmacs 21.2 the load-path searching bug has been fixed and you no
longer have to expand the file name before use -- XEmacs does that for
you.