From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: installed 22.1-0ubuntu4~feisty1, should i remove /etc/emacs21/site-start.d Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:51:04 +0200 Organization: sometimes Message-ID: <87r6lkm3qv.fsf@gnuvola.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188556840 26885 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2007 10:40:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:40:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 31 12:40:39 2007 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 1IR3vZ-0001IJ-SG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:40:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IR3vZ-0003H4-Bb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:40:37 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!panix!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.buerger.net!LF.net!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-93-35.21-151.libero.it Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1188553900 22627 151.21.35.93 (31 Aug 2007 09:51:40 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:51:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xtn3JzRqpyrmQDNNPc7A0WoqDiU= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151494 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:47017 Archived-At: () imputerate () Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:24:57 -0700 (PDT) can i rely on emacs22 to: go to /etc/emacs22 and find 00debian-vars.elc, instead of: going to /etc/emacs21 and running 20gnus-init.el? if your system has strace installed, you can write the script: #!/bin/sh exec strace -f -e open "$@" 2>&1 | grep -v o.such.file into (remove leading space from both lines) /tmp/st and then: $ chmod +x /tmp/st $ /tmp/st emacs -batch -kill doing this will show all files that "emacs -batch -kill" opens. change the command to use the correct emacs or do other stuff as desired. in this way, you can see what is really going on. thi