From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: aix startup file problem Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 14:57:06 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <3D9CAF22.8020907@ihs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033706102 13203 127.0.0.1 (4 Oct 2002 04:35:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 04:35:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17xKB1-0003Qj-00 for ; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 06:34:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17xKBO-0001Xk-00; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 00:35:22 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.telebyte.nl!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1033678616 15607357 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:105688 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:2206 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:2206 > Larry wrote: > I have a problem with my emacs ever since they went to aix 4.3.3 here. > > If I say "emacs myfile.txt" > > The editor will start up but it won't go into the file myfile.txt > unless I > open the file again from inside the emacs window after startup, and > anytime I try to open a new file from the running emacs I have to open > the file twice as the first time it doesn't work. In all of these > cases I get an error on the first try where it says "Wrong type > argument: stringp, nil". I think it is something wrong with my startup > .emacs file. On another system I got a more meaningfull error message > for this same thing and from that I commented > out a hilit-install-line-hooks function in the start up file which it > refered to by name and from there it was fine, but the other machine > doesn't tell me what's wrong as I commented out the same thing there > but I still have the problem. Try `emacs --debug-init myfile.txt`. -- Kevin Rodgers