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Re: File .emacs not read
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Philippe Delavalade |
Subject: |
Re: File .emacs not read |
Date: |
Fri, 1 Dec 2017 12:07:07 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) |
Le jeudi 30 novembre à 16:17, Loris Bennett a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> Philippe Delavalade <philippe.delavalade@orange.fr> writes:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > I'm using emacs 25.3.1 under linux ; I just upgraded slint-14.2 to
> > 14.2.1rc2.
> >
> > Now when starting emacs as user philippe or root or others, it seems that
> > ~/.emacs is not read and I obtain a window *warnings* saying :
> >
> > Error (initialization): User GDM has no home directory
> >
> > I looked for this error on google but answers don't help me.
> >
> > Thanks for advices.
>
> I don't think this is an Emacs problem. GDM sounds like the Gnome
> Display Manager and on my Debian system the user 'Debian-gdm' is the
> owner of my Gnome shell. Bizarrely you seemed to have managed to log in
> as a similar system user. As this user doesn't have a home directory,
> let alone a .emacs, you get the error you are seeing.
Thanks for your answer.
I'm really logged as I should be (root, philippe, etc.).
I don't know the real status of gdm; Gnome is not installed, just gdm so
that accessibility for blind people works in a gui (I don't use this).
>
> What does 'whoami' or 'id' say? Maybe some other stuff than just slint
> got upgraded and broke your display manager.
Maybe but I'm using console.
I observed that if I use C-x C-u for instance, emacs asks me if I want to
enable the command for future editing sessions. If I say yes, it asks to
create directory /home/philippe/tmp/~GDM/. When saying yes, it creates
the directory with a .emacs in it with the line
(put 'upcase-region 'disabled nil)
But in a new cessions, it does not read this file .emacs and still asks
for upcasing the region. Then it creates a new .emacs exactly the same as
.emacs~.
I'll try to see with the slint maintainer but I knwo he is not an emacs user...
Thanks again.
Regards.
--
Ph. Delavalade
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