From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help 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 Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $23.95 Message-ID: References: <31d87c6e-856a-4270-a957-3f85aa9fd8d2@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1452181821 4960 80.91.229.3 (7 Jan 2016 15:50:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 15:50:21 +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 Jan 07 16:50:20 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aHCpP-0004Op-Fw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 16:50:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59158 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aHCpO-0006NT-Vy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 10:50:18 -0500 X-Received: by 10.140.229.78 with SMTP id z75mr93317134qhb.14.1452181668170; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 07:47:48 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!94no3652044qgt.1!news-out.google.com!f6ni46095igq.0!nntp.google.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news7 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p18efbc32824c493bae8353842595de1858129d033fb50ae7.newsdawg.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 In-Reply-To: <31d87c6e-856a-4270-a957-3f85aa9fd8d2@googlegroups.com> X-Received-Bytes: 1305 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3431673824 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:216353 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108643 Archived-At: 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