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Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7)
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smits . gerard . j |
Subject: |
Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7) |
Date: |
Sun, 27 Dec 2015 13:49:41 -0800 (PST) |
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G2/1.0 |
Hi Emacs users,
The issue is that I am not loading my .emacs file
I have just installed version 24.5.1 on my Windows 7 (running within Parallels
on a Mac). I currently have the same configuration on another machine, which I
have been using for several years, and currently works fine.
My home environment variable is Z:\ within emacs, I can determine that this
is what emacs believes is home (getenv "home") evaluates to z:\\.
Emacs knows the correct location of my user initialization file:
user-init-file is a variable defined in `C source code'.
Its value is "z:/.emacs"
My load path, which fits my directory structure, is:
load-path is a variable defined in `C source code'.
Its value is
("/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp"
"z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/site-lisp" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp"
"z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/vc" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/url"
"z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/textmodes"
"z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/progmodes"
"z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/play"
"z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/org"
"z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/nxml"
"z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/net"
"z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/mh-e"
"z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/mail"
"z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/leim"
"z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/language"
"z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/international"
"z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/gnus"
"z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/eshell"
"z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/erc"
"z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/emulation"
"z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/emacs-parallel"
"z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/emacs-lisp"
"z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/cedet"
"z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/calendar"
"z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/calc"
"z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/obsolete")
When I invoke emacs with: emacs -debug-init:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Cannot open load file" "no such file
or directory" "auto-show")
require(auto-show)
eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*> nil "z:/.emacs" nil t) ; Reading at buffer
position 734
load-with-code-conversion("z:/.emacs" "z:/.emacs" t t)
load("~/.emacs" t t)
#[0 " \205\262
it does not seem to be able to find it.
I tried copying over my old version from my other machine (version 22.3.1) and
have the same problem, so it does not seem to be version related.
Believe it or not, I am having similar problems on the Mac/unix side, but that
is for another day.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Gerard Smits
- Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7),
smits . gerard . j <=
Re: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7), Noam Postavsky, 2015/12/30
Re: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7), smits . gerard . j, 2015/12/30