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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: help:update to new version 21.2.1
Date: 21 Feb 2003 11:24:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5r8a2ue1b.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3E55941E.C66E5466@cisco.com

Tom Hu <tomhu@cisco.com> writes:

> I update my emacs from 19.34 to 21.2.1. My init .emacs does not work
> correctly now.
> 
> The first suspect is that when I edit a file, I got an error:
> 
> file mode specification error: (error "Cannot recognize major version
> number: 21).
> 
> All my c-style format are lost. setnu (set number line) is lost too.
> 
> Any help?

It is a hunch that your .emacs file does not work correctly now.
That's all that one can diagnose with the above information.  So you
might want to take a look at it.

Another is that you may have installed some old Lisp packages that
don't know how to deal with Emacs-21.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-21 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-21  2:51 help:update to new version 21.2.1 Tom Hu
2003-02-21 10:24 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2003-02-21 15:20 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-02-21 15:31   ` gebser

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