From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@eku.edu> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs won't open files at startup from command line Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:54:11 -0400 Message-ID: <87ws2fwazg.fsf@eku238261.eku.edu> References: <e8rmy3bfmsu.fsf@FLM000025LVE9F.catmktg.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1256759816 21630 80.91.229.12 (28 Oct 2009 19:56:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:56:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 28 20:56:49 2009 Return-path: <help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org> Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N3EdL-0000qM-Me for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:56:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45280 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3EdL-0006Al-8Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:56:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3Ebv-0005OT-MC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:55:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3Ebr-0005My-LF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:55:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51480 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3Ebr-0005Mv-Ad for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:55:07 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:51941) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org>) id 1N3Ebr-0002vC-2J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:55:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N3Ebo-0008KI-K4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:55:04 +0100 Original-Received: from eku240384.facultystaff.eku.edu ([157.89.133.29]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:55:04 +0100 Original-Received: from tyler.smith by eku240384.facultystaff.eku.edu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:55:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: eku240384.facultystaff.eku.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VwY61xaK2SRkdI1k/Dn/vh5hWrQ= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs>, <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/pipermail/help-gnu-emacs> List-Post: <mailto:help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs>, <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:69319 Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/69319> 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