From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henri Fischer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: "Cannot open load file: wid-edit" error Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:04:49 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1f59f03c-63df-4f4f-9f73-020175ab51b7@w30g2000yqw.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291858378 5301 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 01:32:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 01:32:58 +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 Dec 09 02:32:54 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQVNL-0005Z2-Gu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:32:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57029 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQVNL-00051K-13 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:32:51 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!w30g2000yqw.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.119.131.144 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1281960290 10008 127.0.0.1 (16 Aug 2010 12:04:50 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:04:50 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w30g2000yqw.googlegroups.com; posting-host=83.119.131.144; posting-account=X7JwogoAAACP8PFLkqCKx34awu1aNwR6 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6.5),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:180751 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:76391 Archived-At: Hi, For some reason, the new version of Emacs on my USB (for use in Windows XP), cannot open the load file. I downloaded the zip file from GNU and extracted it. The old version (23.1.1) and the new version (23.2.1) now each have their own folder within "e:/1/11/". I left my .emacs unchanged. However I did copy sitelisp.el from the old to the new version. It contains the following code to make sure Emacs can find its home: ************** (if (and invocation-directory (eq (string-match "[a-zA-Z]:" invocation-directory) 0)) (let ((drive (substring invocation-directory 0 1))) (setenv "HOME" (concat drive ":/home")))) ************** I can start both versions from their respective e:/1/11/.../bin with "runemacs.exe". The old version is fully functional, but when in the new version I try to change the mode in a buffer (M-x org-mode), the new version gives the error mentioned in the subject. when I evaluate load-path in *scratch*, both versions show (almost) the same list of folders. There are two differences. One of course is the version number. Which is as it should be, so nothing wrong there. The second difference is that in the old version, the entire load-path is shown twice. All in all, I don't see any reason why the 23.2.1 behaves so strangely. Loading .emacs from dired doesn't help. Does anyone know what's going on and how to solve this problem? Your help is appreciated. Henri