From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: xfonts Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 17:10:02 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3EB1A94A.5040200@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051830572 16715 80.91.224.249 (1 May 2003 23:09:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 23:09:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 02 01:09:31 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19BNBC-0004LS-00 for ; Fri, 02 May 2003 01:09:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19BNCE-0005i5-01 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 May 2003 19:10:34 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1051830592 13117863 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112642 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9138 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9138 Ivan Danicic wrote: > Hello all, I have just obtained emacs 21.3.1. for linux suse 8.0. which has > a slight glitch. If I enter "emacs" I get a split window which says 'cannot > load file xfonts' and it suggests running 'emacs --debug-init'. This says > (file-error "cannot open load file" xfonts) and to look in init file for > cause. What does this mean? My .emacs contains nothing about xfonts. The > emacs window is otherwise OK but I get error messages of type "cannot find > ... font". If I enter "emacs -q" I get a good starting window Then the problem is in the default.el file. Use `M-x locate-library RET default RET' to find out which load-path directory contains it. > but this is > presumably not quite satisfactory. Any suggestions gratefully received. Read the "Init File" node of the Emacs manual: | There can also be a "default init file", which is the library named | `default.el', found via the standard search path for libraries. The | Emacs distribution contains no such library; your site may create one | for local customizations. If this library exists, it is loaded | whenever you start Emacs (except when you specify `-q'). But your init | file, if any, is loaded first; if it sets `inhibit-default-init' | non-`nil', then `default' is not loaded. | | Your site may also have a "site startup file"; this is named | `site-start.el', if it exists. Emacs loads this library before it | loads your init file. To inhibit loading of this library, use the | option `-no-site-file'. -- Kevin Rodgers