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Drew Adams wrote:
>> After installing auto-install, I was getting the following 
>> error while start
>> my emacs with `--debug-init' option 
>>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable <!DOCTYPE)
>>   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*<2>> nil 
>> "/home/ting/elisp/auto-install.el"
>> nil t)  ; Reading at buffer position 10
>>   load-with-code-conversion("/home/ting/elisp/auto-install.el"
>> "/home/ting/elisp/auto-install.el" nil t)
>>   require(auto-install)
>>   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/home/ting/.emacs" nil 
>> t)  ; Reading at
>> buffer position 1377
>>   load-with-code-conversion("/home/ting/.emacs" 
>> "/home/ting/.emacs" t t)
>>   load("~/.emacs" t t)
>>
>> How could I fix it?
> 
> It looks like you are trying to evaluate a buffer that contains not Emacs Lisp
> but HTML or XML: (void-variable <!DOCTYPE). My guess is that you downloaded a
> Web page, not the source file that the Web page linked to (somehow). Check the
> content of your file auto-install.el - my guess is it is HTML.
> 
> 
> 
just test my client