From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Hendrik Bilges" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs doesn't load .emacs Date: 2 Nov 2006 13:16:08 GMT Message-ID: <4qu9coFops3pU2@individual.net> References: <4qu2hpFops3pU1@individual.net> <1162469132.089595.161970@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162474980 22005 80.91.229.2 (2 Nov 2006 13:43:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 13:43:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 02 14:43:00 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GfcqK-00056g-DO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 14:42:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GfcqK-0004km-0A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 08:42:52 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Trace: individual.net Tp0rgfHWj25NuQbaGWbkLgH6SDVjuveluO0ncaTnMYfJcEtvoW User-Agent: pan 0.108 (Mama's Little Joyboy Loves Lobsters, Lobsters) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142876 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:38495 Archived-At: > Five possibilities:- > * Somewhere else in the .emacs file you have a misplaced paren or > comment opener causing (display-time) not be evaluated > * The filename of the file you've created is not quite ".emacs", > perhaps the "." is in a strange character set > * Ubuntu does something strange like renaming what .emacs should be > called (SUSE used to do this) > * The emacs you have is very broken > * The linux distro you have is very broken I found out that for some unknown reason emacs was invoked with the -q option that prevents loading of the configuration file. I simply reinstalled emacs and now everything is fine. Thanks for the suggestions.