From: kj <socyl@987jk.com.invalid>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: need help with cryptic error message
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:21:24 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gfes9k$e1n$1@reader1.panix.com> (raw)
I have Emacs 22.1, and I'm trying to turn on whitespace-mode.
Nothing I have tried works so far. It would take a very lengthy
post for me to describe everything I've tried, so I'll just say
that the latest I've done is to put the following in my .emacs
file:
(autoload 'whitespace-mode "whitespace" "Toggle whitespace visualization." t)
...per the documentation in http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WhiteSpace.
When I re-start emacs, visit some file, and try the command
M-x whitespace-mode
...I get the error message
Autoloading failed to define function whitespace-mode
...which is almost completely useless. How can I get more information
on why this defintion failed?
(FWIW, emacs won't let me try the command "whitespace" by itself.
If I attempt it, Emacs simply adds a hyphen to the "whitespace" I
had typed in the minibuffer, and waits for some completion from
me, e.g. "mode".)
The file whitespace.elc is perfectly accessible in
/usr/share/emacs/22.1/lisp/whitespace.elc. How can I read the
documentation (and, in particular, the version number) in this file?
Any other words of wisdom would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
Kynn
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2008-11-12 16:15 ` need help with cryptic error message Lowell Gilbert
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