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: 3 Nov 2006 04:28:09 GMT Message-ID: <4qvuqpFol4vsU1@individual.net> References: <4qu2hpFops3pU1@individual.net> <1162469132.089595.161970@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <4qu9coFops3pU2@individual.net> <4quaviFops3pU3@individual.net> <4qum5uFobts1U1@individual.net> <4qunmiFp5j2gU1@individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162528842 10889 80.91.229.2 (3 Nov 2006 04:40:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 04:40:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 03 05:40:40 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 1Gfqqw-0007H4-ME for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 05:40:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gfqqw-00022Y-7v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 23:40:26 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Trace: individual.net JPFkUc8epKGKAGpotN03WgrJnnbOoT612FSW0Mj/evZHW/S2E/ User-Agent: pan 0.108 (Mama's Little Joyboy Loves Lobsters, Lobsters) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142902 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:38521 Archived-At: Kevin Rodgers wrote: > `M-: (find-file (locate-library site-run-file)) RET' will visit the > actual site file that Emacs 21 is loading, which may give you (us) > some hints as to why your ~/.emacs file is not being loaded. This pointed me in the right direction. I already posted the content of this file earlier, I'll do it again, this time WITH the comments: ------------- ;; Emacsen independent startup file. ...these first lines are not ;; important here. ;; Package maintainers: do not have Debian packages edit this file. ;; See the policy manual for the proper way to handle Emacs package ;; initialization code. load "auctex.el" nil t t load "preview-latex.el" nil t t -------------- All is working now after commenting out those two lines: --------------- ;; load "auctex.el" nil t t ;; load "preview-latex.el" nil t t --------------- I now ask myself how these lines got into site-start.el. I remember installing auctex but I don't remember if I added those lines manually or if they were generated. In the latter case, wouldn't it be a violation of the indication given in the comment? Should I paste these lines in my .emacs file, or where do they belong? What do the parameters "nil t t" stand for? I couldn't find any information on this. Thanks, Keith and all you others!