From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: help:update to new version 21.2.1 Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:20:54 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84bs151wyx.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <3E55941E.C66E5466@cisco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045841302 20540 80.91.224.249 (21 Feb 2003 15:28:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 15:28:22 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18mF53-0005HY-00 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:27:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18mF3A-0007OX-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:25:20 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd9e1e9f2.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e1e9f2.dip.t-dialin.net (217.225.233.242) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1045840911 52288046 217.225.233.242 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 Cancel-Lock: sha1:x9+7EPbugwyYYPjwEuVOiSsvLMU= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.emacs:77779 gnu.emacs.help:110481 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6983 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6983 Tom Hu writes: > I update my emacs from 19.34 to 21.2.1. My init .emacs does not work > correctly now. > > The first suspect is that when I edit a file, I got an error: What kind of file? If it is a C file, look for C mode customizations in your .emacs file. > file mode specification error: (error "Cannot recognize major version > number: 21). > > All my c-style format are lost. setnu (set number line) is lost too. Another alternative is to do the binary search dance: comment out the second half of .emacs, see if the error is still there. If the error is still there, comment out more. If the error is gone, re-enable some commented-out sections. Repeat until you get to the troublesome statement. -- A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.