From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: diary file variables are ignored in emacs and in calendar.el Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:33:21 -0700 Organization: None Message-ID: <0u4pn7nace.fsf@xoc2.stanford.EDU> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177292127 31241 80.91.229.12 (23 Apr 2007 01:35:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:35:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 23 03:35:26 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HfnSd-0003gt-Gi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:35:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HfnXy-0001I1-NT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2007 21:40:54 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: xoc2.stanford.edu Original-X-Trace: news.Stanford.EDU 1177292001 28222 171.64.109.31 (23 Apr 2007 01:33:21 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@news.stanford.edu X-Spook: Ejercito Popular Boricua grenades revolucionario X-Ran: a,E)J$zFl?>u|U]O13p3$plxxJ9=HVLF`5sm\vu$)'mY8=7A;J{(v$n]U:)Z$%Y2z%sR*X X-Hue: black X-Attribution: GM Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Gyn36hkOb8YFMWz/NMRKUVPB57U= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:147402 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43006 Archived-At: 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 > ;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.