On Aug 1, 5:51Â 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:>>>>>>> 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
>>>>> Â Â emacs -Q
>>>>> then the M-x load-file ~/.emacs works?
>>>> No, I just srart with
>>>> Â Â Â emacs
>>>> but loading the ~/.emacs file manually sets the config up ok.
>>> If you start with
>
>>> Â Â emacs
>
>>> instead of
>
>>> Â Â emacs -Q
>
>>> 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'
>
> That means you are running a quite old version of Emacs. Maybe the best
> way to proceed would be to upgrade your Emacs (if that is possible)?
>
>> 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?
OK, I've checked on the cygwin package list and there is a newer
version already compiled -
22.1.3 which is probably near enough
(assuming that the current stable version is 22.2). I've installed
that. When I run emacs now I get the following error:
("emacs")
command-line: Cannot open load file: warnings
I also can't get outline mode to work, so I've had to revert to the
earlier version (
21.2.1) for now as at least I can keep working with
that.
