From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: help:update to new version 21.2.1 Date: 21 Feb 2003 11:24:48 +0100 Organization: T-Online Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3E55941E.C66E5466@cisco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045823190 10178 80.91.224.249 (21 Feb 2003 10:26:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:26:30 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18mANx-0002e2-00 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 11:26:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18mAND-0004dv-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 05:25:43 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-hub.siol.net!newsfeed.eunet.at!newsfeed.eunet.at!newsfeed01.chello.at!newsrouter.chello.at!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1045823088 03 12434 k1LjEBTbSZAPc4 030221 10:24:48 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 520018396234-0001@t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6,xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN;i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.emacs:77768 gnu.emacs.help:110469 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6971 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6971 Tom Hu 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