From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nicolas Richard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: no package.el emacs 24.5.1 Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2015 22:10:51 +0200 Message-ID: <87k2qy1ltg.fsf@members.fsf.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444248640 17906 80.91.229.3 (7 Oct 2015 20:10:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 20:10:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Sanjeev Sariya Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 07 22:10:31 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zjv2j-0005RN-2T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2015 22:10:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59276 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zjv2h-0001b2-RF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2015 16:10:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36316) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zjv2V-0001ap-LV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2015 16:10:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zjv2R-00015Z-LH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2015 16:10:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mxin.ulb.ac.be ([164.15.128.112]:6521) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zjv2R-000144-GY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2015 16:10:11 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AuUHADt7FVakD4Xx/2dsb2JhbABeglWCFIJdpg8GljyDE4IKZhkCghEBAQEBAQGBC4QnAQEDAXkFCwgDISUPAQQNPBMUiAUDCgi9KA2FJQELAR+GLIVFglCBe0IHhC4BBJYFiAgFgxeDSoQ5gnGLLYdJY4IRHYFWPDOGJYFHAQEB Original-Received: from mathsrv4.ulb.ac.be (HELO localhost) ([164.15.133.241]) by smtp.ulb.ac.be with ESMTP; 07 Oct 2015 22:10:10 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Sanjeev Sariya's message of "Wed, 7 Oct 2015 10:46:40 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 164.15.128.112 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107546 Archived-At: Sanjeev Sariya writes: > Hi Emacs community, > > I'm new to emacs. I'm trying to add couple of bells and whistles to it. > I upgraded it's version to 24.5.1 Mac OSX > > When I type emacs on terminal I get: > > ;; This buffer is for notes you don't want to save, and for Lisp > evaluation. > ;; If you want to create a file, visit that file with C-x C-f, > ;; then enter the text in that file's own buffer. That looks good. Please try C-h t (i.e. press control key, press h, release both, press t) for an emacs tutorial. > There's no package.el present in > > ~/.emacs.d/ No file package.el is supposed to be in that directory, so that's fine. > Without this nothing would load, and no M-x would work. Please be more specific: what did you try to load, how does loading fail and what does M-x actually do ? Any error message ? -- Nico