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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: difficulty entering balance mode
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:04:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150729165841.10319.189B68E3@ahiker.mooo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150725185325.GE23817@engels.historicalmaterialism.info>

On 2015-07-25 14:53 -0400, Haines Brown wrote:

> I've reduced things to elementals. That is, I do $ emacs -q -l
> .emacs-test. This .emacs-test file has in it only these lines:
> 
>   (autoload 'balance-mode "balance") 
>    (setq auto-mode-alist
>      (append '(("\\.bal\\'" . balance-mode)) auto-mode-alist))
> 
> When I do M-x f to find .balance.bal, now it opens on first try, but
> emacs does enter balance mode. I get this error:
> 
>   file mode specification error: (file-error) "Cannot open load file "no 
>   such file or directory" "balance". 

Ok, let's start again from here.  Forget about the database for now;
first, we have to debug loading the module.  Put this into .emacs-test,
and nothing else:

(message (format "%s" load-path))
(load-library "balance")

Run emacs -q -l .emacs-test, what happens?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-29 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-24 19:23 difficulty entering balance mode Haines Brown
2015-07-25  1:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-25 10:52   ` Haines Brown
2015-07-26 21:53     ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-25 18:53   ` Haines Brown
2015-07-25 20:43     ` Ian Zimmerman
2015-07-26 21:59     ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-27 10:16       ` difficulty entering balance mode (SOLVED) Haines Brown
2015-07-27 23:32         ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found]         ` <mailman.7494.1438040115.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-28 10:38           ` Haines Brown
2015-07-28 21:28             ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-28 21:46               ` Ian Zimmerman
2015-07-29 15:44                 ` Haines Brown
2015-07-29 17:04     ` Ian Zimmerman [this message]
     [not found]     ` <mailman.7618.1438189554.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-07-30 11:02       ` difficulty entering balance mode Haines Brown
2015-07-30 15:54         ` Ian Zimmerman
2015-07-30 17:30           ` Haines Brown
2015-07-30 22:44             ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-25  8:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-07-25 10:39   ` Haines Brown
2015-07-25 16:06     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-07-26 21:44   ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-26 22:14     ` Ian Zimmerman
2015-07-26 22:19       ` Emanuel Berg

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