From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'lehe'" <timlee126@yahoo.com>, <Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: startup error
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 16:03:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0813745487E0409E889C3BBF17D69FE3@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23936742.post@talk.nabble.com>
> After installing auto-install, I was getting the following
> error while start
> my emacs with `--debug-init' option
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable <!DOCTYPE)
> eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*<2>> nil
> "/home/ting/elisp/auto-install.el"
> nil t) ; Reading at buffer position 10
> load-with-code-conversion("/home/ting/elisp/auto-install.el"
> "/home/ting/elisp/auto-install.el" nil t)
> require(auto-install)
> eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*> nil "/home/ting/.emacs" nil
> t) ; Reading at
> buffer position 1377
> load-with-code-conversion("/home/ting/.emacs"
> "/home/ting/.emacs" t t)
> load("~/.emacs" t t)
>
> How could I fix it?
It looks like you are trying to evaluate a buffer that contains not Emacs Lisp
but HTML or XML: (void-variable <!DOCTYPE). My guess is that you downloaded a
Web page, not the source file that the Web page linked to (somehow). Check the
content of your file auto-install.el - my guess is it is HTML.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-09 23:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-09 5:57 startup error lehe
2009-06-09 23:03 ` Drew Adams [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.341.1244588601.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-06-20 0:23 ` 蚂蚁
2009-06-20 9:22 ` Andy Stewart
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