From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: diary file variables are ignored in emacs and in calendar.el Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:25:14 -0400 Message-ID: <462D081A.8070709@speakeasy.net> References: <0u4pn7nace.fsf@xoc2.stanford.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177356354 30636 80.91.229.12 (23 Apr 2007 19:25:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:25:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 23 21:25:48 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hg4AM-0008Oo-U6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:25:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hg4Fn-0004dR-6g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:31:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hg4FU-0004ZS-8Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:30:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hg4FS-0004YZ-MW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:30:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hg4FS-0004YW-FW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:30:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net ([69.17.117.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hg4A1-0005ie-7w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:25:17 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 3545 invoked from network); 23 Apr 2007 19:25:15 -0000 Original-Received: from dsl093-011-017.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO [192.168.0.27]) (gebser@[66.93.11.17]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 23 Apr 2007 19:25:15 -0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0pre (X11/20070214) In-Reply-To: <0u4pn7nace.fsf@xoc2.stanford.EDU> X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43027 Archived-At: On 04/22/2007 09:33 PM somebody named Glenn Morris wrote: > ken wrote: > >> Running "M-x diary", emacs told me it "can't find my diary file >> ~/diary". Never got that before, even though I've run "diary" many >> times. In my ~/.emacs it says >> >> (setq diary-file "~/diary.emacs") > > Sure your .emacs was loaded, fully, without any errors? Any happy folk out there know how to determine this (short of examining every line)? If it matters, I know that .emacs successfully executed code lower down in .emacs than the above setq line. -- "This world ain't big enough for the both of us," said the big noema to the little noema.