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Lutz? Any one? Is there a load path for newLISP?

I need my newLISP library routines to be loaded on demand (as opposed to all the time, e.g. init.lsp in the share directory). And I'd like to avoid saying
but rather say
and have /path/to/rickyboys/libs in the "load path." Thinking of emacs here -- so what is the newLISP way?

Thanks for any help! --Ricky

Hi Ricky,

well by default there is not, but indeed newlisp seeks for init.lsp

But you could add to you ENV someting like export NEWLISP_PATH=/mylibs


Then put an (env "NEWLISP_PATH") in your init.lsp and append
that always to your files..or script and it will load from there...

But perhpas a default path setting inside newlisp would help out ;-)

I couldn't find it in the manual or the source code; so it looks as if I need to write my own load function which will be located in init.lsp and which honors a "load path".

Thanks! --Ricky

newdep wrote:Hi Ricky,

well by default there is not, but indeed newlisp seeks for init.lsp

But you could add to you ENV someting like export NEWLISP_PATH=/mylibs


Then put an (env "NEWLISP_PATH") in your init.lsp and append
that always to your files..or script and it will load from there...

But perhpas a default path setting inside newlisp would help out ;-)

Hey Norman, You were writing at the same time I was and we came to the same conclusion. Great minds think alike, it is said. ;-)

Thanks! --Ricky

the init.lsp is hidden in /usr/share/newlisp..

or in your ~/.init.lsp

its called init.lsp.example by default...


put (set-env "NEWLISP_LIBS" "/mylibs") in your init.lsp


in your scripts or in init.lsp put something like

(setq $L (env "NEWLISP_LIBS"))

now $L always has your directory..


could be done differently though...

hehehe..