From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs won't open files at startup from command line Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:35:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ws2fwazg.fsf@eku238261.eku.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1256834197 11049 80.91.229.12 (29 Oct 2009 16:36:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:36:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 29 17:36:30 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N3XzA-00036k-1f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:36:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37485 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3Xz9-0007PF-8w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:36:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3XyZ-0007N7-VH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:35:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3XyV-0007Fd-Dc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:35:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42096 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3XyU-0007FG-Tu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:35:46 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:50897) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N3XyU-0002tO-Gn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:35:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N3XyP-0002j0-Ce for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:35:41 +0100 Original-Received: from 198.204.74.254 ([198.204.74.254]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:35:41 +0100 Original-Received: from david by 198.204.74.254 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:35:41 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.204.74.254 User-Agent: Gnus/5.1299999999999999 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (cygwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ld1yQyIlIXYFaiCd8V4MdU2wA4Y= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:69335 Archived-At: Tyler Smith 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 command >> 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? I 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. > > Cheers, > > Tyler Been trying to avoid that. I was hoping that it was a compilation error of some kind, and that this message would spark someone's memory into remembering "oh yeah, I heard about that...". But, what you said is what I suppose I'll have to do... Thanks for the reminder of the obvious! Dave