Re: hyperspec issues?

If I put 

(provide 'completer) at the beginning of my .emacs, I still get
exactly the same behavior.

From my limited understanding of Elisp, it seems that saying (provide
'completer) is just telling Emacs that the completer feature is there,
not actually causing anything to be loaded.

If I say (require 'completer) at the beginning of my elisp, it fails,
because at that point there is no completer in my load path.

Which brings me back to my earlier question, of whether there is any
completer that works with Emacs 21, and whether anyone who uses Emacs
21 actually has the hyperspec stuff working?

rif

> 
> Try adding the provide call before your add-to-list in your .emacs
> files.  An alternative is to add a second argument, t, to all your
> add-to-list calls.  What may be happening is that, if you do not have
> the second arg, is that the add-to-list calls are adding paths to the
> front of the list.  So, when you make the provide call, it finds the
> one from the ilisp/hyperspec package because it finds the one from
> ilisp/hyperspec first.
> 
> From: rif <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Ilisp-help] hyperspec issues?
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:01:44 -0500
> 
> > 
> > > Did you put this in your .emacs file?  If so, what happened?
> > > 
> > > (provide 'completer)
> > > (require 'ilisp)
> > > (require 'hyperspec)
> > 
> > The last three lines of my .emacs file is now these three lines?
> > (Should I put them somewhere else?)  It doesn't cause any errors.  The
> > hyperspec-related behavior is unchanged --- it offers to look up a
> > symbol for me, then says "No match."
> > 
> > Previously, I also had in my .emacs
> > 
> > (partial-completion-mode)
> > 
> > Leaving this in or commenting it out seems to make no difference in
> > the described behavior.  Either way I get "No match."
> > 
> > rif
> > 



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