From: rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: where is .emacs configuration file
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 11:09:08 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c98b74d8-bdc4-485d-855c-17787b330d5e@m35g2000prn.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 0b040774-391d-4ed2-867a-87db09b44b60@i21g2000yqg.googlegroups.com
On Oct 1, 10:26 pm, Marc Tfardy <mtfa...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 1 Okt., 18:46, ccc31807 <carte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > (2) What simple change can I make in the configuration file as a test
> > to see if the changes take effect? I tried (print "Hello") but that
> > doesn't result in any message when I start emacs.
>
> Try (message "Hello")
> Alternatively you can put some junk (like rrpowepo§$%§$TKERKERT) to
> the file. When emacs can start it was a wrong file :) When it failed
> on start it was the right file.
Yes this is my preferred method: I make a file consisting only of a
single unmatched open paren ie just
(
You should get an error on starting emacs if emacs reads the file
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2010-10-01 17:23 ` where is .emacs configuration file Uday Reddy
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2010-10-02 2:41 ` rustom
2010-10-02 13:21 ` TheFlyingDutchman
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2010-10-01 18:09 ` rustom [this message]
2010-10-01 18:37 ` Andreas Politz
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