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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next prev 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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