From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: w32 emacs 21.3 problem Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 18:15:54 -0500 Organization: UseNetServer.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1155080465 13162 80.91.229.2 (8 Aug 2006 23:41:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 23:41:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 09 01:41:04 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GAbC4-0003Wq-BQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 01:41:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GAbC3-000097-KJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:41:03 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!atl-c08.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc03.usenetserver.com!DIALUPUSA.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Original-Lines: 47 Original-X-Trace: 0b4c344d91b04a13b7b2930989 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140943 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-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:36568 Archived-At: After getting a "Invalid VxD dynamic link error ..." on a win98 installation, I reinstalled windows (conservatively) and tried a few other things to no avail. Pulling and replacing a memory stick fixed the win98 problem but now I see a debug backtrace instead of getting the .emacs functionality: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable k) ;; my comment: variable k is some artifact. There is none such in the .emacs eval-buffer(# nil "~/.emacs" nil t) load-with-code-conversion("d:/EMACS/.emacs" "~/.emacs" t t) load("~/.emacs" t t) #[nil ",T ... The .emacs starts with: ;; -*- coding: utf-8 -*- and has many exotic characters in it and I suspect that I may have wiped out some of the .nls codepage files that are needed for unicode support. The registry, though, looks like they are still installed. Emacs is invoked in a batch file if that makes a difference: set HOME=D:\EMACS D:\emacs\emacs-21.3\bin\runemacs.exe --debug-init set HOME= And running Alt-! and then the dos set command shows that HOME=D:\EMACS is being set correctly in this shell so I'm reading the .emacs that I think I am. Before my memory problems this .emacs has been working flawlessly (mostly) for many months. Does any of you have any ideas on where I can start looking for a solution? Thanks. Ed --