From: Glenn Morris <rgm+news@stanford.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: diary file variables are ignored in emacs and in calendar.el
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:33:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0u4pn7nace.fsf@xoc2.stanford.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2379.1177280206.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
ken wrote:
> Running "M-x diary", emacs told me it "can't find my diary file
> ~/diary". Never got that before, even though I've run "diary" many
> times. In my ~/.emacs it says
>
> (setq diary-file "~/diary.emacs")
Sure your .emacs was loaded, fully, without any errors?
> ;;;###autoload
> ;<ken>changes name from default
> ;(defcustom diary-file "~/diary"
> (defcustom diary-file "~/diary.emacs"
Don't, don't, don't do that kind of thing without a good reason (this
is not a good reason).
> save it, shut emacs down, start it up again with "emacs -q &", do "C-h v
> diary-file" and it returns "~/diary"!!!
Probably because you: a) did not recompile the file; and b) it's
autoloaded. But you don't want to do this anyway.
> version is: 22.0.50.1
A hideously old CVS version.
next parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-23 1:33 UTC|newest]
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2007-04-23 1:33 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2007-04-23 19:25 ` diary file variables are ignored in emacs and in calendar.el ken
2007-04-23 19:28 ` ken
[not found] ` <mailman.2417.1177356658.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-23 22:23 ` Glenn Morris
2007-04-24 5:55 ` ken
2007-04-25 1:42 ` ken
[not found] ` <mailman.2428.1177394472.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-27 14:27 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-04-22 22:11 ken
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