From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
Cc: Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs 27.1 init file not loading
Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 15:40:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kex5xsb.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANc-5UwsmmayV+ciwGBP3=Wwq6aKAN3G2S-b2Tab8oOv7ibv8Q@mail.gmail.com> (Skip Montanaro's message of "Thu, 20 May 2021 08:10:09 -0500")
>>>>> On Thu, 20 May 2021 08:10:09 -0500, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> said:
Skip> I recently switched from Ubuntu to XUbuntu and in the process lost
Skip> Emacs 27.2. The standard repo only had 26.3, so I went looking for
Skip> alternative locations and landed here:
Skip> https://launchpad.net/~kelleyk/+archive/ubuntu/emacs
Skip> That only had 27.1, but I figured "How different could it be?" As it
Skip> turns out, it's different in one pretty significant way. Running just
Skip> "emacs" from the command line, it fails to find/load
Skip> ~/.config/emacs/init.el. If I run it like so:
Skip> emacs --load ~/.config/emacs/init.el
Skip> it does load. I can tell that it doesn't load in the normal case
Skip> because I added a couple calls to (message "...") to start and end the
Skip> file. They don't show in the minibuffer or the *Messages* buffer
Skip> unless I use the more explicit command.
What's the value of 'user-init-file' when you run emacs normally
(without the symlink below)? Itʼs possible emacs is looking for
'~/.emacs.d/init.el'.
Skip> For the time being I just created a symlink from ~/.emacs to
Skip> ~/.config/emacs/init.el.
Robert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-20 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-20 13:10 Emacs 27.1 init file not loading Skip Montanaro
2021-05-20 13:40 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2021-05-20 20:27 ` Skip Montanaro
2021-05-21 9:01 ` Robert Pluim
2021-05-20 13:47 ` Joost Kremers
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