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

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

[rickhw]

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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 21:52:01 -0800 (PST)
> From: rickhw <rick.woolley@gmail.com>
> 
> 
> 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

This is a very old snapshot of Emacs 24.  Why not use the latest
pretest instead?  (However, I don't think this is the source of your
problems.)

> 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?

If you type

  C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET

do you see the contents of your .emacs file, or do you see an empty
buffer with a "(New file)" message in the echo area?  If the latter,
you didn't put your .emacs where Emacs expects to find it.

If the above doesn't help, please describe where you tried to put your
.emacs.

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

[Jiaxin Cao]

It works well on my PC. I am using 32bit Windows 7. My emacs version is "GNU
Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600) of 2011-04-02 on YAMALOK". 

Are you sure that your .emacs is correct? Can you put it here if it's not
too long?


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


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

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 3.2.2012 um 06:52 schrieb rickhw:

> is there some new trick for this newer version that i am missing???

What is the value of the variable user-init-file?

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

[rickhw]

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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