Re: loading init files, just a simple old .emacs file for starters

[rickhw <rick.woolley@gmail.com>]

I found the problem, near the top of my .emacs file I was loading a
emacs.nnn.el file (without the .el extention specified) and, on ~/ (c:\ in
this case) I had both the byte compiled .elc and the .el file, so emacs was
loading the .elc file which in this case was the problem, I assume that it
was too old and was compiled in a way not compatible with my new
environment. Deleting the .elc version, forcing emacs to instead load the
.el file fixed my problem. 

Many thanks for the quick response and the excellent suggestions 


rickhw wrote:
> 
> I have been using emacs for decades and have never had difficulty loading
> my .emacs file
> 
> but with this latest install on 64bit windows 7 with: 
> 
> GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2011-04-02 on YAMALOK
> 
> I cannot get it to load no matter where I put it, and I cannot even load
> it manually when I have it in the current buffer?
> 
> is there some new trick for this newer version that i am missing???
> 
> please help. 
> 
> 

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