.emacs not loaded anymore

.emacs not loaded anymore

[andersmortensen]

I'm using Emacs on Windows XP. My .emacs file is in the directory c:
\.emacs which was working fine for me until recently. Now Emacs starts
up without loading the .emacs file.

I have made no changes to the .emacs file, so it should be bug free.

Any suggestions on what to do?

Re: .emacs not loaded anymore

[andersmortensen]

On 4 Jul, 11:05, andersmorten...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm using Emacs on Windows XP. My .emacs file is in the directory c:
> \.emacs which was working fine for me until recently. Now Emacs starts
> up without loading the .emacs file.
>
> I have made no changes to the .emacs file, so it should be bug free.
>
> Any suggestions on what to do?

I found a solution. My home directory has for some reason (I wonder
why !!) to another location on the disk. I just save my .emacs file as
"~/.emacs" and now it's working again.

Re: .emacs not loaded anymore

[Cvip]

andersmortensen@gmail.com writes:

> I'm using Emacs on Windows XP. My .emacs file is in the directory c:
> \.emacs which was working fine for me until recently. Now Emacs starts
not c:\ ,you can google.
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> up without loading the .emacs file.
>
> I have made no changes to the .emacs file, so it should be bug free.
>
> Any suggestions on what to do?
>

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Re: .emacs not loaded anymore

[Anupam Sengupta]

>>>>> "andersmortensen" == andersmortensen  <andersmortensen@gmail.com> writes:

    andersmortensen> I'm using Emacs on Windows XP. My .emacs file is in the
    andersmortensen> directory c: \.emacs which was working fine for me until
    andersmortensen> recently. 

I assume you mean the file is *in* the 'C:\' directory and is called '.emacs'
(and is not in a directory called 'c:\.emacs').

    andersmortensen> Now Emacs starts up without loading the .emacs file.

    andersmortensen> I have made no changes to the .emacs file, so it should be
    andersmortensen> bug free.

Some checks you can do:

1. Check if you have defined a HOME variable that points to a location other
   than C:\. This location will override C:\ as the default location for
   checking the .emacs file.

2. See if the file permissions (or 'attributes') are correct for .emacs. You can
   check this through the properties menu item in the context menu from
   Explorer. Especially check if your user ID has the right access.

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