From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rickhw Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: loading init files, just a simple old .emacs file for starters Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 09:35:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <33258286.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <33254900.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328290565 26836 80.91.229.3 (3 Feb 2012 17:36:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 17:36:05 +0000 (UTC) To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 03 18:36:04 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RtN3K-0006iT-2e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:36:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34440 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtN3J-0001BE-Fg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:36:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40483) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtN3B-0001Av-DY for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:35:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtN35-0003nE-7S for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:35:53 -0500 Original-Received: from sam.nabble.com ([216.139.236.26]:58384) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RtN34-0003mx-UV for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:35:47 -0500 Original-Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by sam.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RtN34-0007Y1-6i for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:35:46 -0800 In-Reply-To: <33254900.post@talk.nabble.com> X-Nabble-From: rick.woolley@gmail.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 216.139.236.26 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:83630 Archived-At: I found the problem, near the top of my .emacs file I was loading a emacs.nnn.el file (without the .el extention specified) and, on ~/ (c:\ in this case) I had both the byte compiled .elc and the .el file, so emacs was loading the .elc file which in this case was the problem, I assume that it was too old and was compiled in a way not compatible with my new environment. Deleting the .elc version, forcing emacs to instead load the .el file fixed my problem. Many thanks for the quick response and the excellent suggestions rickhw wrote: > > I have been using emacs for decades and have never had difficulty loading > my .emacs file > > but with this latest install on 64bit windows 7 with: > > GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2011-04-02 on YAMALOK > > I cannot get it to load no matter where I put it, and I cannot even load > it manually when I have it in the current buffer? > > is there some new trick for this newer version that i am missing??? > > please help. > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/loading-init-files%2C-just-a-simple-old-.emacs-file-for-starters-tp33254900p33258286.html Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.