From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Anselm Helbig Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Loss of auctex functionality Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 21:52:29 +0200 Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Message-ID: <87ljozh37m.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> References: <87skj8gs18.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> <68Wdncc-2or1zJHXnZ2dnUVZ_qCdnZ2d@sysmatrix.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242333643 19523 80.91.229.12 (14 May 2009 20:40:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 20:40:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 14 22:40:36 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 1M4hjI-0003oU-5q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 May 2009 22:40:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56824 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M4hjH-0004HY-Aa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 May 2009 16:40:35 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 40 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de FRCRyIw4A4UO/a8j7ytpswJJs734urqgYjo66+agI50EqxUdNVisvR7Vum Cancel-Lock: sha1:8msruAFzM1/h/AbuHwOUPALa5vs= In-Reply-To: Mail-Followup-To: anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Shij=F2?=) APEL/10.7 Emacs/22.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169182 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:64445 Archived-At: 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 -- Anselm Helbig mailto:anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com