From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dejan Jocic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 08:09:35 +0200 Message-ID: <87r3datpeo.fsf@ddej.ddeb.org> References: <8760uokqg4.fsf@debian.uxu> <87r3dbtyfw.fsf@ddej.ddeb.org> <20160509032222524260391@bob.proulx.com> <87h9e7tuo6.fsf@ddej.ddeb.org> <20160509232927240184233@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1462860625 13207 80.91.229.3 (10 May 2016 06:10:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 06:10:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 10 08:10:16 2016 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 1b00s3-0007CA-Ul for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 May 2016 08:10:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44698 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b00s3-0000De-6F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 May 2016 02:10:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47275) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b00rk-00006U-Qx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2016 02:09:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b00rf-0005J0-OH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2016 02:09:56 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37955) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b00re-0005IW-TG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2016 02:09:51 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b00rc-0006h2-16 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 May 2016 08:09:48 +0200 Original-Received: from 178.220.209.32 ([178.220.209.32]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 May 2016 08:09:48 +0200 Original-Received: from jodejka by 178.220.209.32 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 May 2016 08:09:48 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 178.220.209.32 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RPkljwE3ni2+lxsibmu9jwIdQN0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109920 Archived-At: Bob Proulx writes: > Dejan Jocic wrote: >> Bob Proulx writes: >> > Exactly how are you starting emacs? I assume by what you say that you >> > are using the X graphical version and not the terminal version. Have >> > you tried starting it from a command line prompt? Does it report any >> > errors to the terminal? >> >> I'm starting it both in terminal and in X graphical version. Result is >> same, it doesn not read init file, no matter which one i choose to >> use. So, neither ~/.emacs nor ~/emacs.d/init.el work. Of course, I do >> not have both in same time. Btw, Emacs seems to prefere >> ~/emacs.d/init.el cause that is where it autosaves. It autosaved some >> stuff there even when i had ~/.emacs. Think that it did not happen beffore. > > I can only suggest to make the problem as simple as you possibly can. > Because the details here don't follow what is expected. Make things > as simple as possible. Double check all of the normal things in case > the normal things have become broken. Question the fundamentals. > > Check that $HOME is correct and exported. Check that $USER is > correct. Try forcing the issue with: > > emacs -u $USER > > What you are reporting doesn't make sense and most of us would say > that "it can't happen". Since you say it IS happening to you then it > must be that something is actively breaking it in your environment. > You will have to dig into it and figure it out. This isn't a > systematic bug. It isn't reproducible by others. It must be > something specific to your environment. Which, unfortunately for you, > means that you are the only one who can debug it because it is your > system that is broken and none of us are you. > > Good luck! > Bob Yes, "it can't happen" describes this well :) Completely illogical thing, in which worst part is that it is only Emacs, everything else works as expected, as far as I can see it. Anyway, thank you for ideas and good wishes.