From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 23:36:22 -0600 Message-ID: <20160509232927240184233@bob.proulx.com> References: <8760uokqg4.fsf@debian.uxu> <87r3dbtyfw.fsf@ddej.ddeb.org> <20160509032222524260391@bob.proulx.com> <87h9e7tuo6.fsf@ddej.ddeb.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1462858606 16473 80.91.229.3 (10 May 2016 05:36:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 05:36:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 10 07:36:41 2016 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 1b00LZ-0003Zj-2p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 May 2016 07:36:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44563 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b00LY-0003SB-6w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 May 2016 01:36:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39473) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b00LM-0003PC-Nw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2016 01:36:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b00LI-0006Li-GC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2016 01:36:27 -0400 Original-Received: from havoc.proulx.com ([96.88.95.61]:43545) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b00LI-0006Le-6p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2016 01:36:24 -0400 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by havoc.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9635D2D2 for ; Mon, 9 May 2016 23:36:23 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4304121257 for ; Mon, 9 May 2016 23:36:23 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1CE212DC49; Mon, 9 May 2016 23:36:22 -0600 (MDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87h9e7tuo6.fsf@ddej.ddeb.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.0 (2016-04-01) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 96.88.95.61 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109919 Archived-At: 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