| Re: won't load .emacs init file |
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Group: gnu.emacs.help · Group Profile
Author: paul.meadpaul.mead Date: Aug 1, 2008 02:47
On Aug 1, 9:38Â am, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
gmail.com> wrote:> paul.mead wrote:
>> On Jul 31, 11:33 pm, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
>> gmail.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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>>> Â Â emacs -Q
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>>> then the M-x load-file ~/.emacs works?
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>> No, I just srart with
>> Â Â Â emacs
>> but loading the ~/.emacs file manually sets the config up ok.
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> If you start with
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> Â Â emacs
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> instead of
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> Â Â emacs -Q
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> then there is the possibility that something in your site-start.el or
> default.el changes HOME.
Just tried that option - I get a message "Unknown option `-Q'
Using emacs -q has the usual effect (in my case no different to using
just emacs)
Using getenv, I can see that my HOME environment variable is reporting
corrcetly as /home/paul. I can't find how to get the value of user-
init-file.
I don't know if this is relevant - I tried to run Customize and change
a value in there. When I tried to save changed is gave me an error
message "Saving settings from "emacs -q" would overwrite existing
customizations" - that suggests that I am using emacs -q to start, but
I'm not. There are no aliases set, is there anywhere else that a
configuration file could be hiding?
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