From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sanjeev Sariya Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: no package.el emacs 24.5.1 Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:41:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5c0d6739-8f49-4509-a9ce-fb963dd91837@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444596336 10868 80.91.229.3 (11 Oct 2015 20:45:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 20:45:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 11 22:45:35 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlNUs-0002tg-JY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 22:45:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49691 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZlNUr-0003e4-H8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 16:45:33 -0400 X-Received: by 10.50.62.68 with SMTP id w4mr9644524igr.13.1444596062474; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:41:02 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.36.69 with SMTP id o5mr98135igj.7.1444596062458; Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:41:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!kq10no17679471igb.0!news-out.google.com!n2ni27318igy.0!nntp.google.com!kq10no19985673igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=128.164.102.224; posting-account=3hywiQoAAAC7qRM75dhCGL6Nt6I-WinJ Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.102.224 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 20:41:02 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:215294 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107578 Archived-At: Hi John, Thanks for your reply, and warm welcome. :) I've been able to get emacs working. I'm running into more hiccups, will create separate threads for them. Thanks for your attention to my post. Best, Sanjeev ------------------------------------------------------------ On Wednesday, 7 October 2015 15:37:16 UTC-4, John Mastro wrote: > Sanjeev Sariya wrote: > > Hi Emacs community, > > > > I'm new to emacs. I'm trying to add couple of bells and whistles to it. > > I upgraded it's version to 24.5.1 Mac OSX > > Welcome! > > > When I type emacs on terminal I get: > > > > ;; This buffer is for notes you don't want to save, and for Lisp evaluation. > > ;; If you want to create a file, visit that file with C-x C-f, > > ;; then enter the text in that file's own buffer. > > This is expected - it's the *scratch* buffer. If you instead invoke > Emacs as `emacs /path/to/file' it will start you in a buffer showing > that file's contents. Or, as the note above says, you can use `C-x C-f' > (control-x followed by control-f) to open a file from within Emacs. > > > There's no package.el present in > > > > ~/.emacs.d/ > > This too is expected - package.el is installed along with Emacs's other > Lisp source files, not in your ~/.emacs.d/ > > > Without this nothing would load, and no M-x would work. > > Can you be more specific regarding "nothing would load"? What did you > try and what errors did you receive? > > One thing you should probably do is to add this form at the top of your > ~/.emacs.d/init.el file: > > (package-initialize) > > M-x not working might be related to your terminal rather than Emacs > itself. For instance, on OS X I believe you use the "option" key for > meta (rather than command, as I personally prefer and originally > expected). > > How did you install Emacs? You might find it more comfortable to use > Emacs in its GUI mode rather than at the terminal. > > -- > john