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On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:53 PM, J. David Boyd <david@adboyd.com> wrote:
> david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:
>
>> pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:
>>
>>> Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@eku.edu> writes:
>>>
>>>> david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:
>>>>
>>>>> I could use some help troubleshooting this.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I start up emacs, it doesn't load the files I name on the comman=
d
>>>>> line, unless I do an 'emacs -q' to not load any init files.
>>>>>
>>>>> Obviously, it must be something in my .emacs file, but I don't see
>>>>> anything that I've changed in the recent past.
>>>>>
>>>>> Where should I start to debug this? =C2=A0I don't get any errors when=
 it
>>>>> runs, it just refuses to load anything from the command line.
>>>>
>>>> At the risk of stating the obvious, have you tried commenting out all =
of
>>>> your .emacs, then progressively uncommenting it to isolate the lines
>>>> that are causing the problem? comment-region (aka M-;) makes this
>>>> pretty quick to do.
>>>
>>> Also, the OP could try:
>>>
>>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 emacs --debug-init file.txt
>>>
>>> If the file is not open it might be because there's a bug in ~/.emacs
>>
>>
>> That I have tried. =C2=A0No errors at all... =C2=A0I was hoping that the=
re would
>> be one, but everything loads just fine, no errors, just doesn't load the
>> file(s) named on the command line.
>>
>> Thanks for the idea, though.
>
> Found it! =C2=A0I've been calling table.el for years, but somehow it must=
 be
> incompatible with emacs 23.1.1. =C2=A0Took that out, works great. =C2=A0N=
ever used
> the functionality in it anyway...
>
> Dave


The file table.el is included in Emacs now.

This is not the first time I have seen quite interesting side effects
from using old versions of a file that has later been included in
Emacs. I think that some test should be made after startup for
potential such loadings. (This could be run conditionally after all
init files.)