From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Mastro Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7) Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 19:06:49 -0800 Message-ID: References: <3172bfe2-d1b5-43d8-8b61-0820768d6e4a@googlegroups.com> <56848345.9000109@verizon.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451531252 25333 80.91.229.3 (31 Dec 2015 03:07:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 03:07:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Charles Millar To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 31 04:07:23 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aETaF-0002XB-Io for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Dec 2015 04:07:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54484 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aETaE-0005oE-6l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 22:07:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48244) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aETa2-0005o6-8N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 22:07:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aETa1-0007Zy-9f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 22:07:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-yk0-x236.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c07::236]:34351) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aETa1-0007Zm-4f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 22:07:09 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-yk0-x236.google.com with SMTP id a85so93742116ykb.1 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 19:07:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=K1tuvzXpbECEGvI567FEXDJ7VM/Ahu7Hgel6LAuo1dk=; b=Pz0VZUPpJHta/pwu5FyvfHi2zW8umz0ur7lPme2MuGEB00FCDGJHwcG66LTjS5BmFe NO5TJ4pccvmpmzAmzPEVt07jGgCrJKt1XWyrs3+SHie9U4ZXNkGa3zoGUJbKlz1XtkBM O0Ukurs1eEJPaPGp2K7WJg5z2dgU6D/onR3mKlxlJpPwp5eRspOac50As3Zm65HGDQPP fs7Xa7kitY8w4lC/Yir764Yaiaj/ktDAcUi/TTJsWhXuhOVgxO59qeUq3f0aRaQpLA1g 29jjnsEOkD4KIxxdmajYwARlzBt+Y+qnt/k3gEQgzaAa5qZVmNIXKwm5dkC3YyNr5TyZ APnw== X-Received: by 10.129.71.5 with SMTP id u5mr58503341ywa.91.1451531228810; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 19:07:08 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.37.230.134 with HTTP; Wed, 30 Dec 2015 19:06:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <56848345.9000109@verizon.net> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4002:c07::236 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108539 Archived-At: Charles Millar wrote: >> Ed, I'm running in Windows 7. when I evaluate (getenv "home"), it gives >> me "z:/" That is my root/home, so would not my .emacs be expected to be >> there? I currently have it there. >> Thanks, Gerard >> > What does C-h v user-init-file show? According to the documentation that > should return the file name, including directory, of user's initialization > file. It looks like Emacs found his .emacs fine, and was loading it when the error occurred (backtrace below). The error was that it couldn't find the `auto-show' library: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Cannot open load file" "no such file or directory" "auto-show") require(auto-show) eval-buffer(# nil "z:/.emacs" nil t) ; Reading at buffer position 734 load-with-code-conversion("z:/.emacs" "z:/.emacs" t t) load("~/.emacs" t t) #[0 " \205\262 -- john