Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7)

Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7)

[smits.gerard.j]

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

Re: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7)

[Javier]

smits.gerard.j@gmail.com wrote:
> 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"

There may be some problem with the windows filesystem in the Mac.
Try calling the init file _emacs instead of .emacs

(info "(emacs) MS-DOS File Names")
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/MS_002dDOS-File-Names.html

Re: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7)

[smits.gerard.j]

Tried _emacs instead of .emacs.  But did not resolve. Thanks,  Gerard

Re: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7)

[Noam Postavsky]

 <smits.gerard.j <at> gmail.com> writes:

> The issue is that I am not loading my .emacs file
[...]
> 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

Looks like it found your .emacs fine, but it can't find auto-show.el

Re: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7)

[smits.gerard.j]

Hi Noam,

Not familiar with auto-show.el.  I found an example on line and on a guess put in my home directory--obviously not the correct place, as did not help.

Do you know where it goes?

Thanks,

Gerard

Re: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7)

[B. T. Raven]

On 12/30/2015 12:15 AM, smits.gerard.j@gmail.com wrote:
> Tried _emacs instead of .emacs.  But did not resolve. Thanks,  Gerard
>


Put your .emacs in C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming

if you happen to be Administator, otherwise substitute your User-name 
for Administrator. This is where Emacs thinks your home directory is.

Ed

Re: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7)

[smits.gerard.j]

> 
> Put your .emacs in C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming
> 
> if you happen to be Administator, otherwise substitute your User-name 
> for Administrator. This is where Emacs thinks your home directory is.
> 
> Ed

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

Re: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7)

[John Mastro]

<smits.gerard.j@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not familiar with auto-show.el.  I found an example on line and on a guess put in my home directory--obviously not the correct place, as did not help.
>
> Do you know where it goes?

The typical thing, I think, would be to put it in z:\\site-lisp and then
add a line like this to your .emacs:

    (add-to-list 'load-path "z:/site-lisp")

Which adds that directory to the list of places Emacs will look for Lisp
libraries.

You can use whatever directory you like, provided you have an
appropriate (add-to-list 'load-path ...) in your .emacs before the
library in question is required.

-- 
john

Re: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7)

[Charles Millar]

On 12/30/2015 07:16 PM, smits.gerard.j@gmail.com wrote:
>> Put your .emacs in C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming
>>
>> if you happen to be Administator, otherwise substitute your User-name
>> for Administrator. This is where Emacs thinks your home directory is.
>>
>> Ed
> 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.

Re: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7)

[John Mastro]

Charles Millar <millarc@verizon.net> 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(#<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

-- 
john

Re: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7)

[smits.gerard.j]

On Wednesday, December 30, 2015 at 5:22:47 PM UTC-8, Charles Millar wrote:
> On 12/30/2015 07:16 PM, smits.gerard.j@gmail.com wrote:
> >> Put your .emacs in C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming
> >>
> >> if you happen to be Administator, otherwise substitute your User-name
> >> for Administrator. This is where Emacs thinks your home directory is.
> >>
> >> Ed
> > 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 shows exactly where I have my .emacs file:


user-init-file is a variable defined in `C source code'.
Its value is "z:/.emacs"

Re: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7)

[smits.gerard.j]

Thanks for all of the suggestions.  Not fixed yet, but eventually ...

Gerard

Re: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7)

[B. T. Raven]

On 1/6/2016 6:06 PM, smits.gerard.j@gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks for all of the suggestions.  Not fixed yet, but eventually ...
>
> Gerard
>

If Emacs knows that your home is at z:\ then it is almost certainly 
trying to load .emacs
Put this first after any commented lines:
(message "{{{ --[ Loading my Emacs init file ]--")

and start Emacs with the  --debug-init option.

What happens then?

Ed