From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
"J. David Boyd" <david@adboyd.com>,
Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: emacs won't open files at startup from command line
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 06:53:48 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911041453.nA4ErmoA003223@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e01d8a50910301335w41bc137t85fac29b88127c5a@mail.gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:35:36 +0100")
Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:53 PM, J. David Boyd <david@adboyd.com> wrote:
> > david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:
> >
> >> pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:
> >>
> >>> Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@eku.edu> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I could use some help troubleshooting this.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> When I start up emacs, it doesn't load the files I name on the command
> >>>>> line, unless I do an 'emacs -q' to not load any init files.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Obviously, it must be something in my .emacs file, but I don't see
> >>>>> anything that I've changed in the recent past.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Where should I start to debug this? I don't get any errors when it
> >>>>> runs, it just refuses to load anything from the command line.
> >>>>
> >>>> At the risk of stating the obvious, have you tried commenting out all of
> >>>> your .emacs, then progressively uncommenting it to isolate the lines
> >>>> that are causing the problem? comment-region (aka M-;) makes this
> >>>> pretty quick to do.
> >>>
> >>> Also, the OP could try:
> >>>
> >>> emacs --debug-init file.txt
> >>>
> >>> If the file is not open it might be because there's a bug in ~/.emacs
> >>
> >>
> >> That I have tried. No errors at all... I was hoping that there would
> >> be one, but everything loads just fine, no errors, just doesn't load the
> >> file(s) named on the command line.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the idea, though.
> >
> > Found it! I've been calling table.el for years, but somehow it must be
> > incompatible with emacs 23.1.1. Took that out, works great. Never used
> > the functionality in it anyway...
> >
> > Dave
>
>
> The file table.el is included in Emacs now.
>
> This is not the first time I have seen quite interesting side effects
> from using old versions of a file that has later been included in
> Emacs. I think that some test should be made after startup for
> potential such loadings. (This could be run conditionally after all
> init files.)
See `bad-packages-alist'
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-04 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-28 17:30 emacs won't open files at startup from command line J. David Boyd
2009-10-28 19:54 ` Tyler Smith
2009-10-29 16:35 ` J. David Boyd
2009-10-29 18:56 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-10-30 14:33 ` J. David Boyd
[not found] ` <mailman.9647.1256759713.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-10-28 21:21 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-10-29 16:36 ` J. David Boyd
2009-10-30 17:07 ` J. David Boyd
2009-10-30 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-30 19:53 ` J. David Boyd
2009-10-30 20:35 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-04 6:06 ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-11-04 9:45 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-04 20:32 ` J. David Boyd
2009-11-04 14:53 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2009-11-04 14:57 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-04 15:05 ` Dan Nicolaescu
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