From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Haines Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: difficulty entering balance mode (SOLVED) Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 06:16:14 -0400 Message-ID: <20150727101614.GG23817@engels.historicalmaterialism.info> References: <87380dnyw3.fsf@engels.histomat.net> <87a8ul2fc3.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> <20150725185325.GE23817@engels.historicalmaterialism.info> <87egjuh965.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1437992225 30422 80.91.229.3 (27 Jul 2015 10:17:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 10:17:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 27 12:16:56 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZJfSm-0002Bz-06 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2015 12:16:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52487 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZJfSl-0005kj-60 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2015 06:16:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56783) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZJfSQ-0005gF-MO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2015 06:16:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZJfSN-0001Uh-F2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2015 06:16:30 -0400 Original-Received: from outbound-relay3.guardedhost.com ([216.239.133.203]:27437) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZJfSN-0001Sh-3a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2015 06:16:27 -0400 Original-Received: from ten-mx02.omnis.com (mx02.guardedhost.com [IPv6:2607:fe90:1:1::53:7]) by outbound-relay.guardedhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3mfxqk1l8qz3ws2 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2015 10:16:17 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from engels.histomat.net (unknown [32.210.114.254]) (Authenticated sender: brownh@historicalmaterialism.info) by ten-mx02.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3mfxqh4LnhzykR for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2015 10:16:16 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from haines by engels.histomat.net with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZJfSB-00077r-3B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2015 06:16:15 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87egjuh965.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> X-Operating-System: GNU/Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae Debian Wheezy X-URL: www.historicalMaterialism.info User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: haines@engels.historicalmaterialism.info X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on engels.histomat.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.98.6 at ten-mx02.omnis.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse-Id: d881a61b-bab6-4e37-803d-ce327083d029 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 216.239.133.203 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106029 Archived-At: On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 11:59:46PM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Haines Brown writes: > > > When I do M-x f to find .balance.bal, now it opens > > on first try, but emacs does enter balance mode. After much fiddling, I found that my balance.bal file had a flaw in it. This was not an issue of name, extension, permissions, mode, etc. I was unable to see the flaw, but when I copied the content of that file to a new balance.bal, the problem disappeared. Thanks for your help and patience.