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[Geert Janssens]

On Thursday 12 March 2015 09:16:18 John Ralls wrote:
> > On Mar 12, 2015, at 2:57 AM, David Christopher <chrstdvd at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > How do I change the path the guile looks for my .scm files.  Rigjht
> > now it looks in /home/david  but I put my dinky little "newbee"
> > files in /home/david/Documents.
> > 
> > I tried "PATH=$PATH:$HOME/Documents" and
> > "PATH=$PATH:$HOME/david/Documents" from the terminal while in
> > /home/david .
> > 
> > That does not work from the terminal or within in guile.
> > 
> > I do not understand instructions given to me to edit
> > /home/david/.profile
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Environment-Variab
> les.html describes the environment variables Guile looks at.

In particular you will probably want to set environment variable GUILE_LOAD_PATH.

Geert