From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 27.1 init file not loading
Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 15:47:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eee1zfad.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANc-5UwsmmayV+ciwGBP3=Wwq6aKAN3G2S-b2Tab8oOv7ibv8Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, May 20 2021, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> I recently switched from Ubuntu to XUbuntu and in the process lost
> Emacs 27.2. The standard repo only had 26.3, so I went looking for
> alternative locations and landed here:
>
> https://launchpad.net/~kelleyk/+archive/ubuntu/emacs
>
> That only had 27.1, but I figured "How different could it be?" As it
> turns out, it's different in one pretty significant way. Running just
> "emacs" from the command line, it fails to find/load
> ~/.config/emacs/init.el.
You may want to read:
(info "(emacs) Find Init")
Basically, check to make sure there's no `~.emacs.el`, `~.emacs` or `~/.emacs.d/init.el`.
--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-20 13:47 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
2021-05-20 20:27 ` Skip Montanaro
2021-05-21 9:01 ` Robert Pluim
2021-05-20 13:47 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
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