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won't load .emacs init file         


Author: paul.d.mead
Date: Jul 31, 2008 07:00

I'm running emacs under cygwin. For some reason my .emacs file is
being ignored.

The environment variable for HOME is reporting correctly as /home/
paul. That is where I have placed my .emacs file. I have tried running
using --debug-init and it reports no errors.

I have evaluated every line in the file in turn and they all work
fine. It is as if it's running emacs -q, but there are NO aliases set
or scripts which could be running instead.

Close to my wits' end. Can you help?

Thanks
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Re: won't load .emacs init file         


Author: paul.d.mead
Date: Jul 31, 2008 07:19

On Jul 31, 3:00 pm, paul.d.m...@googlemail.com wrote:
> I'm running emacs under cygwin. For some reason my .emacs file is
> being ignored.
>
> The environment variable for HOME is reporting correctly as /home/
> paul. That is where I have placed my .emacs file. I have tried running
> using --debug-init and it reports no errors.
>
> I have evaluated every line in the file in turn and they all work
> fine. It is as if it's running emacs -q, but there are NO aliases set
> or scripts which could be running instead.
>
> Close to my wits' end. Can you help?
>
> Thanks

Additional information - running M-x load-file ~/.emacs loads the init
file perfectly, it just doesn't load when I start emacs.
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Re: won't load .emacs init file         


Author: Lennart Borgman (gmail)
Date: Jul 31, 2008 15:33

paul.d.mead@googlemail.com wrote:
> On Jul 31, 3:00 pm, paul.d.m...@googlemail.com wrote:
>> I'm running emacs under cygwin. For some reason my .emacs file is
>> being ignored.
>>
>> The environment variable for HOME is reporting correctly as /home/
>> paul. That is where I have placed my .emacs file. I have tried running
>> using --debug-init and it reports no errors.
>>
>> I have evaluated every line in the file in turn and they all work
>> fine. It is as if it's running emacs -q, but there are NO aliases set
>> or scripts which could be running instead.
>>
>> Close to my wits' end. Can you help?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Additional information - running M-x load-file ~/.emacs loads the init
> file perfectly, it just doesn't load when I start emacs.
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Re: won't load .emacs init file         


Author: Nikolaj Schumacher
Date: Aug 1, 2008 01:16

paul.d.mead@googlemail.com wrote:
> On Jul 31, 3:00 pm, paul.d.m...@googlemail.com wrote:
>> I'm running emacs under cygwin. For some reason my .emacs file is
>> being ignored.
>>
>> The environment variable for HOME is reporting correctly as /home/
>> paul.

Reported only by your shell, or also by Emacs? (`getenv')

Is the value of `user-init-file' correct?

regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher
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Re: won't load .emacs init file         


Author: Lennart Borgman (gmail)
Date: Aug 1, 2008 01:38

paul.mead wrote:
> On Jul 31, 11:33 pm, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
> gmail.com> wrote:
>> paul.d.m...@googlemail.com wrote:
>>> On Jul 31, 3:00 pm, paul.d.m...@googlemail.com wrote:
>>>> I'm running emacs under cygwin. For some reason my .emacs file is
>>>> being ignored.
>>>> The environment variable for HOME is reporting correctly as /home/
>>>> paul. That is where I have placed my .emacs file. I have tried running
>>>> using --debug-init and it reports no errors.
>>>> I have evaluated every line in the file in turn and they all work
>>>> fine. It is as if it's running emacs -q, but there are NO aliases set
>>>> or scripts which could be running instead.
>>>> Close to my wits' end. Can you help?
>>>> Thanks
>>> Additional information - running M-x load-file ~/.emacs loads the init
>>> file perfectly, it just doesn't load when I start emacs.
>> Do you mean that if you start with
>>
>> emacs -Q ...
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Re: won't load .emacs init file         


Author: paul.mead
Date: Aug 1, 2008 02:47

On Aug 1, 9:38 am, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
gmail.com> wrote:
> paul.mead wrote:
>> On Jul 31, 11:33 pm, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
>> gmail.com> wrote:
>>> paul.d.m...@googlemail.com wrote:
>>>> On Jul 31, 3:00 pm, paul.d.m...@googlemail.com wrote:
>>>>> I'm running emacs under cygwin. For some reason my .emacs file is
>>>>> being ignored.
>>>>> The environment variable for HOME is reporting correctly as /home/
>>>>> paul. That is where I have placed my .emacs file. I have tried running
>>>>> using --debug-init and it reports no errors.
>>>>> I have evaluated every line in the file in turn and they all work
>>>>> fine. It is as if it's running emacs -q, but there are NO aliases set
>>>>> or scripts which could be running instead.
>>>>> Close to my wits' end. Can you help?
>>>>> Thanks
>>>> Additional information - running M-x load-file ~/.emacs loads the init
>>>> file perfectly, it just doesn't load when I start emacs.
>>> Do you mean that if you start with ...
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Re: won't load .emacs init file         


Author: Lennart Borgman (gmail)
Date: Aug 1, 2008 09:51

paul.mead wrote:
> On Aug 1, 9:38 am, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
> gmail.com> wrote:
>> paul.mead wrote:
>>> On Jul 31, 11:33 pm, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
>>> gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> paul.d.m...@googlemail.com wrote:
>>>>> On Jul 31, 3:00 pm, paul.d.m...@googlemail.com wrote:
>>>>>> I'm running emacs under cygwin. For some reason my .emacs file is
>>>>>> being ignored.
>>>>>> The environment variable for HOME is reporting correctly as /home/
>>>>>> paul. That is where I have placed my .emacs file. I have tried running
>>>>>> using --debug-init and it reports no errors.
>>>>>> I have evaluated every line in the file in turn and they all work
>>>>>> fine. It is as if it's running emacs -q, but there are NO aliases set
>>>>>> or scripts which could be running instead.
>>>>>> Close to my wits' end. Can you help?
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Additional information - running M-x load-file ~/.emacs loads the init
>>>>> file perfectly, it just doesn't load when I start emacs. ...
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Re: won't load .emacs init file         


Author: paul.mead
Date: Aug 3, 2008 04:33

On Aug 1, 5:51 pm, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
gmail.com> wrote:
> paul.mead wrote:
>> On Aug 1, 9:38 am, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
>> gmail.com> wrote:
>>> paul.mead wrote:
>>>> On Jul 31, 11:33 pm, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
>>>> gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> paul.d.m...@googlemail.com wrote:
>>>>>> On Jul 31, 3:00 pm, paul.d.m...@googlemail.com wrote:
>>>>>>> I'm running emacs under cygwin. For some reason my .emacs file is
>>>>>>> being ignored.
>>>>>>> The environment variable for HOME is reporting correctly as /home/
>>>>>>> paul. That is where I have placed my .emacs file. I have tried running
>>>>>>> using --debug-init and it reports no errors.
>>>>>>> I have evaluated every line in the file in turn and they all work
>>>>>>> fine. It is as if it's running emacs -q, but there are NO aliases set
>>>>>>> or scripts which could be running instead.
>>>>>>> Close to my wits' end. Can you help?
>>>>>>> Thanks ...
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Re: won't load .emacs init file         


Author: paul mead
Date: Aug 3, 2008 05:14

test..
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Re: won't load .emacs init file         


Author: paul.mead
Date: Aug 5, 2008 01:56

On Aug 1, 5:51 pm, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
gmail.com> wrote:
> paul.mead wrote:
>> On Aug 1, 9:38 am, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
>> gmail.com> wrote:
>>> paul.mead wrote:
>>>> On Jul 31, 11:33 pm, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
>>>> gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> paul.d.m...@googlemail.com wrote:
>>>>>> On Jul 31, 3:00 pm, paul.d.m...@googlemail.com wrote:
>>>>>>> I'm running emacs under cygwin. For some reason my .emacs file is
>>>>>>> being ignored.
>>>>>>> The environment variable for HOME is reporting correctly as /home/
>>>>>>> paul. That is where I have placed my .emacs file. I have tried running
>>>>>>> using --debug-init and it reports no errors.
>>>>>>> I have evaluated every line in the file in turn and they all work
>>>>>>> fine. It is as if it's running emacs -q, but there are NO aliases set
>>>>>>> or scripts which could be running instead.
>>>>>>> Close to my wits' end. Can you help?
>>>>>>> Thanks ...
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