From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: asd@cdotb.ernet.in
Cc: GnuEmacs Help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: .emacs is not getting executed
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:18:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B997A29F-BB22-4AC6-9DAD-AD3060591232@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <492A2A44.9060506@cdotb.ernet.in>
Am 24.11.2008 um 05:15 schrieb Anand S. Dhankshirur:
> Actually i don't know anything about the lisp programming.
> This .emacs file, i took it from some one else.
> ...
>
> I just want the key bindings to work.
So throw away everything you copied, except these empty statements
that are, empty or not empty, always the last ones in a user init file
(custom-set-variables
;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/
paste it!
;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
)
(custom-set-faces
;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste
it!
;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
)
and just leave your key binding things in it. With time you'll add
this or that, then knowing what you're doing.
If invocation with --debug-init does not point to the error, then try
to sanely comment have of your init file. If the error persits, then
it's in the not yet commented region. So comment, sanely, half of
this half, re-launch. If the error went away, then it was in the
comment half. So un-comment this and comment the previously
uncommented half. Iterate until the error is the only uncommented
statement.
Another way: start with your key bindings and the two default
statements and add one statement after other from the .emacs copy you
fetched somewhere.
--
Greetings
Pete
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does
not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
– Robert Heinlein
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-21 3:52 .emacs is not getting executed Anand S. Dhankshirur
[not found] ` <347eb82e0811202004u4d7a73dah544be3e1db40f93d@mail.gmail.com>
2008-11-21 4:24 ` Anand S. Dhankshirur
2008-11-21 5:44 ` liouys
2008-11-21 10:01 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <49269874.2090905@cdotb.ernet.in>
[not found] ` <46DE244D-D339-4F49-9320-E09E6A2372DF@Web.DE>
2008-11-24 4:15 ` Anand S. Dhankshirur
2008-11-24 10:18 ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
2008-11-24 11:24 ` Anand S. Dhankshirur
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