From: smits.gerard.j@gmail.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7)
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 13:49:41 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b37f99e4-9f68-4bdf-8180-851b94e0de0e@googlegroups.com> (raw)
Hi Emacs users,
The issue is that I am not loading my .emacs file
I have just installed version 24.5.1 on my Windows 7 (running within Parallels on a Mac). I currently have the same configuration on another machine, which I have been using for several years, and currently works fine.
My home environment variable is Z:\ within emacs, I can determine that this is what emacs believes is home (getenv "home") evaluates to z:\\.
Emacs knows the correct location of my user initialization file:
user-init-file is a variable defined in `C source code'.
Its value is "z:/.emacs"
My load path, which fits my directory structure, is:
load-path is a variable defined in `C source code'.
Its value is
("/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/site-lisp" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/vc" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/url" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/textmodes" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/progmodes" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/play" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/org" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/nxml" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/net" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/mh-e" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/mail" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/leim" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/language" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/international" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/gnus" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/eshell" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/erc" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/emulation" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/emacs-parallel" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/emacs-lisp" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/cedet" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/calendar" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/calc" "z:/gs/emacs/share/emacs/24.5/lisp/obsolete")
When I invoke emacs with: emacs -debug-init:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Cannot open load file" "no such file or directory" "auto-show")
require(auto-show)
eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*> 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
it does not seem to be able to find it.
I tried copying over my old version from my other machine (version 22.3.1) and have the same problem, so it does not seem to be version related.
Believe it or not, I am having similar problems on the Mac/unix side, but that is for another day.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Gerard Smits
next reply other threads:[~2015-12-27 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-27 21:49 smits.gerard.j [this message]
2015-12-28 10:52 ` Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7) Javier
2015-12-30 6:15 ` smits.gerard.j
2015-12-30 22:30 ` B. T. Raven
2015-12-31 0:16 ` smits.gerard.j
2015-12-31 1:22 ` Charles Millar
2015-12-31 3:06 ` John Mastro
[not found] ` <mailman.1396.1451524964.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-02 23:20 ` smits.gerard.j
2015-12-30 16:06 ` Noam Postavsky
2015-12-30 18:19 ` smits.gerard.j
2015-12-31 0:50 ` John Mastro
2016-01-07 0:06 ` smits.gerard.j
2016-01-07 15:47 ` B. T. Raven
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