From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: problem reading ~/.emacs.desktop Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:24:28 -0400 Message-ID: <4AAF5D4C.2040402@mousecar.com> References: <4AAECA72.4050103@mousecar.com> <4AAF054D.8010300@mousecar.com> Reply-To: gebser@mousecar.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253006718 19700 80.91.229.12 (15 Sep 2009 09:25:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:25:18 +0000 (UTC) To: GNU Emacs List Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 15 11:25:11 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MnUHf-0003C1-8b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:25:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39179 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MnUHd-0000gd-Js for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:25:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MnUH6-0000gY-Ea for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:24:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MnUH2-0000fd-Td for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:24:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35645 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MnUH2-0000fS-OZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:24:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.195]:54432) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MnUH2-00077e-6p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:24:32 -0400 Original-Received: from dellap.mousecar.net (dsl093-011-017.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.11.17]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKpCa-1MnUH00i3O-000dzI; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:24:31 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090625) In-Reply-To: <4AAF054D.8010300@mousecar.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: id=5AD091E7 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+/quAYE5K/F/IPprZLLaEP6oz3J7kf0LWTw1+ 1j5Ves8OW2jatS4G006Brm3fWDRpLQUYUabaj/VYpddBhqL91j jJlJn3LY3fMQ4fXXS3YK0TnC+mxizku X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:68153 Archived-At: On 09/14/2009 11:09 PM ken wrote: > Okay, I found a work-around for the first problem, but ran into another: > > In the process of a system upgrade, I pulled in last week's > ~/.emacs.desktop. And, yes, I upgraded emacs to v.23.1.1. Now I get > this error when emacs loads: > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable Í) > (desktop-create-buffer Í "/home/mine/file2open.html" "file2open.html" > (quote html-helper-mode) (quote (auto-fill-mode abbrev-mode)) 5535 > (quote (nil nil)) nil nil (quote (...))) > eval-buffer(# nil "/home/zl/.emacs.desktop" nil t) ; > Reading at buffer position 1139 > load-with-code-conversion("/home/zl/.emacs.desktop" > "/home/zl/.emacs.desktop" t t) > load("/home/zl/.emacs.desktop" t t t) > desktop-read() > #[nil "  ƒ > > > Anyone know how to fix this? If so, much appreciated. > My (uneducated) hunch is that desktop-create-buffer doesn't like the first argument. This argument is a number (which in my email client is displayed as an 'I' with a diacritical mark above it). When the above Debugger output is displayed in emacs the number is '\315'. If I look at this ~/.emacs.desktop file with the "less" command, it is displayed as "<81>"... for every instance of a buffer. (?) According to the emacs doc on "desktop-create-buffer", this first arg is "desktop-file-version"; I don't know what that is and have no idea why the function "desktop-file-version" doesn't like it. Anybody able to figure out what this problem is? tia. > > ....