Re: Loss of auctex functionality

[Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com>]

Hi!

> I seem to have a few too many emacs directories:
> 
> /usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp
> which has ess and auctex files in it

These should be (mostly) .elc (byte-compiled) files and symlinks to
.el files.

> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
> which also has ess and auctex files in it

Here you should find the original .el files. 

> 
> /usr/share/emacs/22.2/site-lisp
> which is an empty folder.

On my system /usr/share/emacs/23.0.91/site-lisp is a symlink to
/usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp. 

> The weird thing is that ESS is still working fine while auctex seems to not be.
> 
> Lastly, a newbie question. Is the .emacs file just a text file
> located in your home directory and does emacs look for it
> automatically there. That probably should be a new thread but it is
> pertinent to my issue.

Emacs automatically loads your .emacs unless you start it with the -q
or -Q option. And, yes, the .emacs is "just" a text file. 

HTH, 

Anselm


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Anselm Helbig 
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