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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


      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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