From: "B. T. Raven" <btraven@nihilo.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7)
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 09:47:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <n6m1920b1l@news7.newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31d87c6e-856a-4270-a957-3f85aa9fd8d2@googlegroups.com>
On 1/6/2016 6:06 PM, smits.gerard.j@gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks for all of the suggestions. Not fixed yet, but eventually ...
>
> Gerard
>
If Emacs knows that your home is at z:\ then it is almost certainly
trying to load .emacs
Put this first after any commented lines:
(message "{{{ --[ Loading my Emacs init file ]--")
and start Emacs with the --debug-init option.
What happens then?
Ed
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-07 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-27 21:49 Unable to have emacs load my .emacs file (version 24.5.1 on Windows 7) smits.gerard.j
2015-12-28 10:52 ` Javier
2015-12-30 6:15 ` smits.gerard.j
2015-12-30 22:30 ` B. T. Raven
2015-12-31 0:16 ` smits.gerard.j
2015-12-31 1:22 ` Charles Millar
2015-12-31 3:06 ` John Mastro
[not found] ` <mailman.1396.1451524964.843.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-01-02 23:20 ` smits.gerard.j
2015-12-30 16:06 ` Noam Postavsky
2015-12-30 18:19 ` smits.gerard.j
2015-12-31 0:50 ` John Mastro
2016-01-07 0:06 ` smits.gerard.j
2016-01-07 15:47 ` B. T. Raven [this message]
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