From: "Anand S. Dhankshirur" <asd@cdotb.ernet.in>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>,
GnuEmacs Help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: .emacs is not getting executed
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:54:53 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <492A8F05.1050803@cdotb.ernet.in> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B997A29F-BB22-4AC6-9DAD-AD3060591232@Web.DE>
Hi,
I retained only the key bindings and last two statements.
The key bindings are working!! :-)
Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
> Am 24.11.2008 um 05:15 schrieb Anand S. Dhankshirur:
>
>> Actually i don't know anything about the lisp programming.
>> This .emacs file, i took it from some one else.
>> ...
>>
>> I just want the key bindings to work.
>
> So throw away everything you copied, except these empty statements
> that are, empty or not empty, always the last ones in a user init file
>
> (custom-set-variables
> ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or
> cut/paste it!
> ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
> )
> (custom-set-faces
> ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom -- don't edit or
> cut/paste it!
> ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
> )
>
> and just leave your key binding things in it. With time you'll add
> this or that, then knowing what you're doing.
>
> If invocation with --debug-init does not point to the error, then try
> to sanely comment have of your init file. If the error persits, then
> it's in the not yet commented region. So comment, sanely, half of this
> half, re-launch. If the error went away, then it was in the comment
> half. So un-comment this and comment the previously uncommented half.
> Iterate until the error is the only uncommented statement.
>
> Another way: start with your key bindings and the two default
> statements and add one statement after other from the .emacs copy you
> fetched somewhere.
>
> --
> Greetings
>
> Pete
>
> There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does
> not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
> – Robert Heinlein
>
>
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-24 11:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-21 3:52 .emacs is not getting executed Anand S. Dhankshirur
[not found] ` <347eb82e0811202004u4d7a73dah544be3e1db40f93d@mail.gmail.com>
2008-11-21 4:24 ` Anand S. Dhankshirur
2008-11-21 5:44 ` liouys
2008-11-21 10:01 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <49269874.2090905@cdotb.ernet.in>
[not found] ` <46DE244D-D339-4F49-9320-E09E6A2372DF@Web.DE>
2008-11-24 4:15 ` Anand S. Dhankshirur
2008-11-24 10:18 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-11-24 11:24 ` Anand S. Dhankshirur [this message]
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