What is “emacs load-path”?

Question

I want to change my emacs source code theme. They say in emacswiki that I have to add the.el file in a directory in my load-path, but what is my load-path? And how do I access it?

Answer 1

Take a look at the Load Path page on emacswiki: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LoadPath

Basically, you want to add the directory like so:

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/emacs-load-path")