I'm running Debian linux etch/testing, emacs21 21.4, emacro 2005-9 When I attempt to start emacs, I get an error message at the bottom on the emacs window stating; Wrong type argument: sequencep, emacs21 To ensure normal operation, you should investigate the cause of the error in your initialization file and remove it. Start Emacs with the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace call-interactively: Text is read-only When I comment out this item in my .emacs file, emacs starts with no problems; (require 'e-macro) Not sure how to correct this. I'm pretty sure I have followed the install instructions to a "T", but not really sure at this point in time. (emacs) Loading disp-table...done Loading tool-bar...done Loading image...done Loading tooltip...done Loading 00debian-vars...done Loading 50a2ps (source)... Loading a2ps-print...done Loading 50a2ps (source)...done Loading 50dictionaries-common (source)... Loading debian-ispell... Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-default.el (source)...done Loading debian-ispell...done Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el (source)...done Loading 50dictionaries-common (source)...done Loading 50emacs-color-themes (source)...done Loading 50emacs-goodies-el (source)...done Loading 51debian-el (source)...done Loading cl-macs...done Loading mule-util...done Wrote /home/rodney/emacs/preferences/e-cache.el [2 times] Wrote /home/rodney/emacs/preferences/e-xcache.el [2 times] Wrote /home/rodney/emacs/preferences/e-cache.el Loading e-preload (source)...done Loading e-prefs (source)...done Wrote /home/rodney/emacs/preferences/e-cache.el [5 times] Loading diary-lib...done Wrote /home/rodney/emacs/preferences/e-cache.el [5 times] Loading jka-compr...done Wrote /home/rodney/emacs/preferences/e-cache.el [2 times] Loading cl-extra...done Wrote /home/rodney/emacs/preferences/e-cache.el [15 times] Loading /usr/lib/emacs/21.4/i486-linux-gnu/fns-21.4.1-x.el (source)...done Wrote /home/rodney/emacs/preferences/e-cache.el [22 times] Loading byte-opt...done An error has occurred while loading `/home/rodney/.emacs': Wrong type argument: sequencep, emacs21 To ensure normal operation, you should investigate the cause of the error in your initialization file and remove it. Start Emacs with the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace call-interactively: Text is read-only this is the output of --debug-init;' Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument sequencep emacs21) concat("/" emacs21 "/site-lisp/") (string-match (concat "/" debian-emacs-flavor "/site-lisp/") path) (if (string-match (concat "/" debian-emacs-flavor "/site-lisp/") path) (replace-match "/emacs/site-lisp/" nil t path) path) (lambda (path) (if (string-match ... path) (replace-match "/emacs/site-lisp/" nil t path) path))("/home/rodney/emacs/packages/w3m") mapcar((lambda (path) (if (string-match ... path) (replace-match "/emacs/site-lisp/" nil t path) path)) ("/home/rodney/emacs/packages/w3m" "/home/rodney/emacs/packages/tramp/lisp" "/home/rodney/emacs/packages/tiny-tools/lisp/other" "/home/rodney/emacs/packages/tiny-tools/lisp/tiny" "/home/rodney/emacs/packages/" "/home/rodney/emacs/i18n" "/home/rodney/emacs/programmer" "/home/rodney/emacs/preferences" "/home/rodney/emacs/packages/w3/contrib" "/home/rodney/emacs/packages/w3/lisp" "/home/rodney/emacs/emacro/" "/home/rodney/emacs/" "/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/emacs-color-themes" "/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/a2ps" "/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/debian-el" "/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el" "/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/dictionaries-common" "/etc/emacs21" "/etc/emacs" "/usr/local/share/emacs/21.4/site-lisp" "/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/site-lisp" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/site-lisp/a2ps" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/site-lisp/debian-el" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/site-lisp/dictionaries-common" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/site-lisp/emacs-color-themes" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/site-lisp/psgml" "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/leim" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/toolbar" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/textmodes" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/progmodes" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/play" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/obsolete" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/net" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/mail" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/language" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/international" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/gnus" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/eshell" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/emulation" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/emacs-lisp" "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/calendar" "/usr/share/elisp")) (setq find-function-source-path (mapcar (lambda ... ...) load-path)) (progn (setq find-function-source-path (mapcar ... load-path))) (if (boundp (quote debian-emacs-flavor)) (progn (setq find-function-source-path ...))) (when (boundp (quote debian-emacs-flavor)) (setq find-function-source-path (mapcar ... load-path))) eval-buffer(#> nil "e-linux" nil t) load-with-code-conversion("/home/rodney/emacs/emacro/e-linux.el" "e-linux" nil t) require(e-linux) (if cache-tinyload (setq tinyload-:load-list (append tinyload-:load-list ...)) (require arg)) emacro-require(e-linux) (cond ((string-match "windows" ...) (emacro-require ...)) ((or ... ...) (emacro-require ...)) (t (emacro-require ...))) eval-buffer(#> nil "e-config" nil t) load-with-code-conversion("/home/rodney/emacs/emacro/e-config.el" "e-config" nil t) require(e-config) eval-buffer(#> nil "e-macro" nil t) load-with-code-conversion("/home/rodney/emacs/emacro/e-macro.el" "e-macro" nil t) require(e-macro) eval-buffer(# nil "~/.emacs" nil t) load-with-code-conversion("/home/rodney/.emacs" "~/.emacs" t t) load("~/.emacs" t t) #[nil "#…— Æ=ƒ#Ç#ÈQ‚5 É=ƒ'ÊÇËÌ#ƒ#Í‚5΂5 Ï=ƒ1Ђ5Ç#ÑQ#Ò#Ó\nÒ‰#ˆ#Ò=ƒFË##ƒˆÔ#!ÕšƒˆÖ#!‰#×P#Ø !ƒd ‚oØ\f!ƒn\f‚oˉ#ƒ‡Ù\f#\"ƒ…ÚÛ\f##ˆÜÝ!ˆ\f#*##†–Ë# ÓÞÒ‰#))‡" [init-file-user system-type user-init-file-1 user-init-file source alt ms-dos "~" "/_emacs" windows-nt directory-files nil "^\\.emacs\\(\\.elc?\\)?$" "~/.emacs" "~/_emacs" vax-vms "sys$login:.emacs" "/.emacs" t load file-name-extension "elc" file-name-sans-extension ".el" file-exists-p file-newer-than-file-p message "Warning: %s is newer than %s" sit-for 1 "default" inhibit-default-init inhibit-startup-message] 5]() command-line() normal-top-level() -- Rodney D. 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