From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Nick Dokos Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Unable to open some files in emacs with emacs 25.3. Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:58:27 -0400 Message-ID: <87tw061icc.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> References: <878thi27sk.fsf@skimble.plus.com> <868thifw2y.fsf@zoho.com> <87shfqzffl.fsf@skimble.plus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1505332744 26952 195.159.176.226 (13 Sep 2017 19:59:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 19:59:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 13 21:59:00 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dsDoK-0006tu-40 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 21:59:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44375 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dsDoP-00039C-Vn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:59:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42951) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dsDo0-00038z-8c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:58:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dsDnx-0007uu-89 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:58:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=48090 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dsDnx-0007uQ-27 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:58:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dsDnm-0006KD-V8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2017 21:58:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:0FXKMG4/RSidqE80VmfZEpEZCfw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:114271 Archived-At: Sharon Kimble writes: > Emanuel Berg writes: > >> Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >>> Ever since updating to emacs 25.3 yesterday >>> I find that I cannot open some of my files in >>> emacs. This is the case in point >> >> It is common and understandable that a thing or >> two breaks with updates. Ironically... But you >> can't make an omelet without cracking the eggs. >> >>> [[~/cron/boudiccas.crontab]] >>> >>> On Monday that link would open the file in >>> emacs, today, it doesn't and the only change >>> is the new emacs version. >> >> Do you get an error message and if so what >> does it say? > > No, there is no error message but it does say in *Messages* 'Running > calligraauthor /home/boudiccas/cron/boudiccas.crontab...done', but it > never completely opens to be able to read the actual file. > Why is calligraauthor running? Can you take it out of the loop altogether? Can you run it from the command line and see if it completes? It seems to pop up a window when I do that, so I'm not sure if emacs is waiting for the application to finish before continuing. -- Nick