From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "rgb" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: recentf-mode works 'by hand' but not if started from .emacs Date: 16 Jan 2007 10:05:41 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1168970738.841790.271720@l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1168614875.355310.217590@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1168966392.930662.33840@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168972849 22685 80.91.229.12 (16 Jan 2007 18:40:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:40:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 16 19:40:47 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H6tEY-0004nH-O7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:40:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H6tEY-0006Tv-Kd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:40:34 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 168.208.215.220 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1168970758 6064 127.0.0.1 (16 Jan 2007 18:05:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:05:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=168.208.215.220; posting-account=C7LM4w0AAAD23IRuMuUUJVCLQTuHhTK8 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144764 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40369 Archived-At: > >> What happens if you run Emacs with an ~/.emacs which only > >>> contains the line (recentf-mode 1)? Do you get the submenu in the File > >>> menu? > >> I get the same error message as in my initial post. > >> > >> Thanks again. Do you have any other idea? > >> > > You need (require 'recentf) in your .emacs! > > > But this does not give me the menu on top, right? > If I include and have it followed by the (recentf-mode t), I have again > the same error. :-( > As I re-read this post 2 things jump out at me. 1) When it 'works' you are doing something that makes recentf autoload Thus my suggestion that you need (require 'recentf) 2) every time you get the error you are using (recentf-mode t) rather than putting '(recentf-mode t) in your (custom-set-variables ... section. There is obviously a difference although I have no idea what it might be. Turning on debug-on-error should show a trace of the activity that leads to your error.