Re: emacs won't open files at startup from command line

[Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@eku.edu>]

david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:

> I could use some help troubleshooting this.  
>
> When I start up emacs, it doesn't load the files I name on the command
> line, unless I do an 'emacs -q' to not load any init files.
>
> Obviously, it must be something in my .emacs file, but I don't see
> anything that I've changed in the recent past.
>
> Where should I start to debug this?  I don't get any errors when it
> runs, it just refuses to load anything from the command line.

At the risk of stating the obvious, have you tried commenting out all of
your .emacs, then progressively uncommenting it to isolate the lines
that are causing the problem? comment-region (aka M-;) makes this
pretty quick to do.

Cheers,

Tyler