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From: Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 23:36:22 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160509232927240184233@bob.proulx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9e7tuo6.fsf@ddej.ddeb.org>

Dejan Jocic wrote:
> Bob Proulx writes:
> > Exactly how are you starting emacs?  I assume by what you say that you
> > are using the X graphical version and not the terminal version.  Have
> > you tried starting it from a command line prompt?  Does it report any
> > errors to the terminal?
> 
> I'm starting it both in terminal and in X graphical version. Result is
> same, it doesn not read init file, no matter which one i choose to
> use. So, neither ~/.emacs nor ~/emacs.d/init.el work. Of course, I do
> not have both in same time. Btw, Emacs seems to prefere
> ~/emacs.d/init.el cause that is where it autosaves. It autosaved some
> stuff there even when i had ~/.emacs. Think that it did not happen beffore.

I can only suggest to make the problem as simple as you possibly can.
Because the details here don't follow what is expected.  Make things
as simple as possible.  Double check all of the normal things in case
the normal things have become broken.  Question the fundamentals.

Check that $HOME is correct and exported.  Check that $USER is
correct.  Try forcing the issue with:

  emacs -u $USER

What you are reporting doesn't make sense and most of us would say
that "it can't happen".  Since you say it IS happening to you then it
must be that something is actively breaking it in your environment.
You will have to dig into it and figure it out.  This isn't a
systematic bug.  It isn't reproducible by others.  It must be
something specific to your environment.  Which, unfortunately for you,
means that you are the only one who can debug it because it is your
system that is broken and none of us are you.

Good luck!
Bob



  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-10  5:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-07 15:07 Help 庄 子恒
2016-05-08  4:03 ` Help Kaushal Modi
2016-05-08  7:12   ` Help Guillermo Vaya
2016-05-08 13:39 ` Help John Mastro
2016-05-09  0:47 ` Help Emanuel Berg
2016-05-09  8:42   ` Help Dejan Jocic
2016-05-09  9:30     ` Help Bob Proulx
2016-05-09 10:03       ` Help Dejan Jocic
2016-05-10  5:36         ` Bob Proulx [this message]
2016-05-10  6:09           ` Help Dejan Jocic
2016-05-10 23:17         ` Help Emanuel Berg
2016-05-11  8:57           ` Help Dejan Jocic
2016-05-14  3:52             ` Help Emanuel Berg
2016-05-11  0:31         ` Help John Mastro
2016-05-11  8:45           ` Help Dejan Jocic
2016-05-14  3:49     ` Help Emanuel Berg
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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2023-01-16  4:25 ` help Richard Stallman
2023-01-16  5:20 ` help Jim Porter
     [not found] <mailman.80.1454259641.17556.emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
2016-01-31 21:51 ` Help Heartsayer
     [not found] <mailman.1794.1443178478.19560.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-09-25 11:07 ` help Joost Kremers
2015-09-25  7:18 help ss
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2015-09-27 17:21   ` help Artur Malabarba
2015-09-27 17:49     ` help Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-27 18:28       ` help Artur Malabarba
2015-09-27 20:02         ` help Marcin Borkowski
2015-09-28  1:37           ` help Kaushal Modi
2015-09-28 11:03             ` help Artur Malabarba
2014-09-02 16:07 help Moritz Kiefer
2014-10-12 12:10 ` help Bastien
     [not found] <mailman.771.1263114721.18930.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-01-10  9:57 ` Help Cecil Westerhof
2010-01-10 22:36   ` Help Tim X
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2010-01-05 16:17 Help Rhey, David
2010-01-05 19:11 ` Help Tassilo Horn
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2008-06-10  0:29   ` Help Nikolaj Schumacher
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2008-06-09 16:00 help 江林
2008-06-09 19:39 ` help Xah
2007-12-13  5:42 help HANS jackman
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2005-12-13 23:32 ` Help Richard M. Stallman
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2005-12-14 16:34     ` Help Kevin Rodgers
2005-12-14 19:15     ` Help Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-15  2:07     ` Help Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-15  8:16       ` Help Werner LEMBERG
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