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On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
> =C2=A0> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:53 PM, J. David Boyd <david@adboyd.com>=
 wrote:
> =C2=A0> > david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:
> =C2=A0> >
> =C2=A0> >> pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:
> =C2=A0> >>
> =C2=A0> >>> Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@eku.edu> writes:
> =C2=A0> >>>
> =C2=A0> >>>> david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:
> =C2=A0> >>>>
> =C2=A0> >>>>> I could use some help troubleshooting this.
> =C2=A0> >>>>>
> =C2=A0> >>>>> When I start up emacs, it doesn't load the files I name on =
the command
> =C2=A0> >>>>> line, unless I do an 'emacs -q' to not load any init files.
> =C2=A0> >>>>>
> =C2=A0> >>>>> Obviously, it must be something in my .emacs file, but I do=
n't see
> =C2=A0> >>>>> anything that I've changed in the recent past.
> =C2=A0> >>>>>
> =C2=A0> >>>>> Where should I start to debug this? =C2=A0I don't get any e=
rrors when it
> =C2=A0> >>>>> runs, it just refuses to load anything from the command lin=
e.
> =C2=A0> >>>>
> =C2=A0> >>>> At the risk of stating the obvious, have you tried commentin=
g out all of
> =C2=A0> >>>> your .emacs, then progressively uncommenting it to isolate t=
he lines
> =C2=A0> >>>> that are causing the problem? comment-region (aka M-;) makes=
 this
> =C2=A0> >>>> pretty quick to do.
> =C2=A0> >>>
> =C2=A0> >>> Also, the OP could try:
> =C2=A0> >>>
> =C2=A0> >>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 emacs --debug-init file.txt
> =C2=A0> >>>
> =C2=A0> >>> If the file is not open it might be because there's a bug in =
~/.emacs
> =C2=A0> >>
> =C2=A0> >>
> =C2=A0> >> That I have tried. =C2=A0No errors at all... =C2=A0I was hopin=
g that there would
> =C2=A0> >> be one, but everything loads just fine, no errors, just doesn'=
t load the
> =C2=A0> >> file(s) named on the command line.
> =C2=A0> >>
> =C2=A0> >> Thanks for the idea, though.
> =C2=A0> >
> =C2=A0> > Found it! =C2=A0I've been calling table.el for years, but someh=
ow it must be
> =C2=A0> > incompatible with emacs 23.1.1. =C2=A0Took that out, works grea=
t. =C2=A0Never used
> =C2=A0> > the functionality in it anyway...
> =C2=A0> >
> =C2=A0> > Dave
> =C2=A0>
> =C2=A0>
> =C2=A0> The file table.el is included in Emacs now.
> =C2=A0>
> =C2=A0> This is not the first time I have seen quite interesting side eff=
ects
> =C2=A0> from using old versions of a file that has later been included in
> =C2=A0> Emacs. I think that some test should be made after startup for
> =C2=A0> potential such loadings. (This could be run conditionally after a=
ll
> =C2=A0> init files.)
>
> See `bad-packages-alist'
>

Ah, thanks, forgot about it.

Should not table.el be in this list too then?
And nxml too?