On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 07:54:25PM -0800, David Masterson wrote:

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> Question: which end of load-path is "front" if you look at load-path via
> describe-variable?  It's been far too long since my days of Elisp
> hacking.

This goes "left to right" when looking at it on a conventional
display. The first hit "wins". My load path looks like this
(well, a part of it, I don't want to bore everyone ;-)

   ( "~/.emacs.d/lisp"
     "/home/tomas/.emacs.d/elpa/geiser-0.10/"
     "/home/tomas/.emacs.d/elpa/geiser-0.10"
     "/home/tomas/.emacs.d/elpa/markdown-mode-2.1" 
     ...
     "/usr/local/share/emacs/29.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp"
     "/usr/local/share/emacs/29.0.50/lisp/cedet"
     ... )

meaning that Emacs first looks in my personal directories, then
in the system local ones (I have a "locally" installed Emacs
from the distribution's POV).

The distribution's directories would go even later, were there
any.

Cheers
-- 
t