From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Hendrik Bilges" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs doesn't load .emacs Date: 2 Nov 2006 14:29:15 GMT Message-ID: <4qudlrFops3pU4@individual.net> References: <4qu2hpFops3pU1@individual.net> <1162469132.089595.161970@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <4qu9coFops3pU2@individual.net> <4quaviFops3pU3@individual.net> <443b92j5lt.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162478592 3436 80.91.229.2 (2 Nov 2006 14:43:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 14:43:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 02 15:43:10 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GfdmK-0000Wy-Jw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 15:42:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GfdmK-0004WY-7Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 09:42:48 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 9v45RYuuVOhaVoW6AkJzOQ0FgpaMhk0gc43RBITJWt8ai0QLBf User-Agent: pan 0.108 (Mama's Little Joyboy Loves Lobsters, Lobsters) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142881 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:38500 Archived-At: Am Thu, 02 Nov 2006 09:17:02 -0500 schrieb Lowell Gilbert: > Or is the problem that you aren't intending to use that option, and > don't know how it is getting set? In that case, you need to look at > how you are invoking emacs, and see where the option is creeping in. Yes, that is the problem. I checked $ alias alias ls='ls --color=auto' and then $ type emacs tux69_ emacs is /usr/bin/emacs file /usr/bin/emacs /usr/bin/emacs: symbolic link to `/etc/alternatives/emacs' $ file /etc/alternatives/emacs /etc/alternatives/emacs: symbolic link to `/usr/bin/emacs21-x' $ file /usr/bin/emacs21-x /usr/bin/emacs21-x: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped I now have no more clue what to look for.