From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs won't open files at startup from command line Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:57:38 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87vdhzp63c.fsf@galatea.local> <200911041453.nA4ErmoA003223@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257346739 28535 80.91.229.12 (4 Nov 2009 14:58:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:58:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs help , "J. 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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:116626 gmane.emacs.help:69471 Archived-At: On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Dan Nicolaescu wrote: > Lennart Borgman writes: > > =C2=A0> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:53 PM, J. David Boyd = wrote: > =C2=A0> > david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes: > =C2=A0> > > =C2=A0> >> pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes: > =C2=A0> >> > =C2=A0> >>> Tyler Smith writes: > =C2=A0> >>> > =C2=A0> >>>> david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes: > =C2=A0> >>>> > =C2=A0> >>>>> I could use some help troubleshooting this. > =C2=A0> >>>>> > =C2=A0> >>>>> When I start up emacs, it doesn't load the files I name on = the command > =C2=A0> >>>>> line, unless I do an 'emacs -q' to not load any init files. > =C2=A0> >>>>> > =C2=A0> >>>>> Obviously, it must be something in my .emacs file, but I do= n't see > =C2=A0> >>>>> anything that I've changed in the recent past. > =C2=A0> >>>>> > =C2=A0> >>>>> Where should I start to debug this? =C2=A0I don't get any e= rrors when it > =C2=A0> >>>>> runs, it just refuses to load anything from the command lin= e. > =C2=A0> >>>> > =C2=A0> >>>> At the risk of stating the obvious, have you tried commentin= g out all of > =C2=A0> >>>> your .emacs, then progressively uncommenting it to isolate t= he lines > =C2=A0> >>>> that are causing the problem? comment-region (aka M-;) makes= this > =C2=A0> >>>> pretty quick to do. > =C2=A0> >>> > =C2=A0> >>> Also, the OP could try: > =C2=A0> >>> > =C2=A0> >>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 emacs --debug-init file.txt > =C2=A0> >>> > =C2=A0> >>> If the file is not open it might be because there's a bug in = ~/.emacs > =C2=A0> >> > =C2=A0> >> > =C2=A0> >> That I have tried. =C2=A0No errors at all... =C2=A0I was hopin= g that there would > =C2=A0> >> be one, but everything loads just fine, no errors, just doesn'= t load the > =C2=A0> >> file(s) named on the command line. > =C2=A0> >> > =C2=A0> >> Thanks for the idea, though. > =C2=A0> > > =C2=A0> > Found it! =C2=A0I've been calling table.el for years, but someh= ow it must be > =C2=A0> > incompatible with emacs 23.1.1. =C2=A0Took that out, works grea= t. =C2=A0Never used > =C2=A0> > the functionality in it anyway... > =C2=A0> > > =C2=A0> > Dave > =C2=A0> > =C2=A0> > =C2=A0> The file table.el is included in Emacs now. > =C2=A0> > =C2=A0> This is not the first time I have seen quite interesting side eff= ects > =C2=A0> from using old versions of a file that has later been included in > =C2=A0> Emacs. I think that some test should be made after startup for > =C2=A0> potential such loadings. (This could be run conditionally after a= ll > =C2=A0> init files.) > > See `bad-packages-alist' > Ah, thanks, forgot about it. Should not table.el be in this list too then? And nxml too?