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: New installation of GNU Emacs 28.2, (Debian bookworm,) error Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 09:03:15 +0200 Message-ID: <865xxo9du4.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20240314185559.7550.qmail@panix.com> <868r2kabb5.fsf@gnu.org> <20240314191959.9299.qmail@panix.com> <867ci4a8d7.fsf@gnu.org> <20240314204108.11686.qmail@panix.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6086"; 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 Mar 15 08:04:03 2024 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 1rl1bn-0001L5-19 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 15 Mar 2024 08:04:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rl1b6-0007uY-9g; Fri, 15 Mar 2024 03:03:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rl1b5-0007uN-47 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Mar 2024 03:03:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rl1b4-00015S-Rd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Mar 2024 03:03:18 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=cZFDhrVM8o4WPF08Lr5FV+Rd0ULfRFLAskPU+NOEkf4=; b=a44+7PHDrJqu gCqZNEE3rx7/iX1Xp2aQLeTTylxLjAoCUnmrTL1+SoQqmSLo8xVoAwQUl4bkNutNsmhivhZ3tBlGs GQZr0SHt8I7m+HdtcWyIrs1nYdN2/ssP6Uc8gRVKfnzkdu+r3EzT92trf9YRCNgbPPpmOg/2Gfbbm KXMLkUa8bf56Bi4+6BDaUsS3FNre3fJ52LLQ/gcfO3JayqfTZD4MT/bJkc8DxwHdygakjlNN0/4zw aSpJDsfNj1kEJ+yyyNEv6wku6Q2JJQZrhjTGVL5n3h6viJ+PG1jTXEtb2migKQ7VsePZAjPyvlcQy r8ltlML8HVhgTFVUlGP9/A==; In-Reply-To: <20240314204108.11686.qmail@panix.com> (conover@panix.com) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:146098 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 13:41:07 -0700 > From: conover@panix.com (John Conover) > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > > But anyway: why are you compiling your init file? It isn't supposed > > to include any significant Lisp code that is worth compiling. > > I didn't recompile it. Emacs 28 did not recognize ~/.emacs as the > source, but did recognize the ~/.emacs.elc file. That's very strange: I've been using all the versions of Emacs since 19.30 till now with ~/.emacs, and never had any problems with its recognizing this init file. > I had to ln -s .emacs .emacs.el to make it work; it then compiled > ~.emacs.el into ~/.emacs.d/eln-cache/*. > > Seems odd to be shuffling around file names and directories for a > program that is 40 years old this year. Indeed, and it shouldn't be necessary. Perhaps there's something special in your arrangement of files and/or directories of importance to Emacs, which causes this. If you can find out what that is, please submit a bug report, if Emacs 29 still doesn't recognize ~/.emacs (after you delete .emacs.el, .emacs.elc, and the corresponding .eln file).