From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: finding the hork point in ~/.emacs Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 09:41:11 +0300 Message-ID: <83v9h3z308.fsf@gnu.org> References: <837dtk3f3v.fsf@gnu.org> <9270e794-fef0-9a62-4534-5bbeb541f804@mousecar.com> <83eens0yut.fsf@gnu.org> <22dec152-2a0e-eb9d-3fc2-2fd1914338fa@mousecar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26427"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 28 08:41:52 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kBY58-0006jT-Ct for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2020 08:41:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58672 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kBY57-0001DH-AT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2020 02:41:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41298) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kBY4f-0001Cx-7s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2020 02:41:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:40897) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kBY4e-0001tL-A7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2020 02:41:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4485 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kBY4d-0003V7-Ng for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2020 02:41:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <22dec152-2a0e-eb9d-3fc2-2fd1914338fa@mousecar.com> (message from ken on Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:40:54 -0400) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:123814 Archived-At: > From: ken > Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:40:54 -0400 > > > What additional mode is that? How do you turn it on? > > It's a super-old package, still in quite a bit of use, called > html-helper-mode.  I've come to love it a lot, way more than emacs' > native html editor.  I've customized it quite a bit over the years > also.  Today I went through the whole thing (over 2600 lines for your > carpal tunnel pleasure) and tested every function and definition etc., > and everything worked.  And when I got to the last line, it was loaded, > So I opened a test.html file, used it in all kinds of ways, and > everything worked fine.  So I'm fairly certain that it's some other code > before that's invoked which is bringing about the error. > > It's turned on with this in my ~/.emacs: > > (autoload 'html-helper-mode "html-helper-mode" "Yay HTML" t) So if you start Emacs without that line, and then evaluate that line via "M-:", everything works as expected with that mode? But if that line is present in your .emacs, something doesn't work well, is that right? If so, what exactly doesn't work in the latter case?