From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs won't open files at startup from command line Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:21:43 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87vdhzp63c.fsf@galatea.local> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1256766056 10564 80.91.229.12 (28 Oct 2009 21:40:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:40:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 28 22:40:49 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 1N3GG7-0004Us-4J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:40:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33765 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3GG6-00038y-LB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:40:46 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Trace: individual.net Cm9QwW5CzUkwj7Q3C133Rgoa994W5oFxA0gna74Ldk3HOAampq Cancel-Lock: sha1:YzA2YmVmZWJhNGY2M2UyNDEwZmY4OThkYjBhZjc4MjhiODNlMGM3Mw== sha1:u/DnlknAVPyXvXJz3l6x18foVTk= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:174240 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:69322 Archived-At: Tyler Smith writes: > david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes: > >> I could use some help troubleshooting this. >> >> When I start up emacs, it doesn't load the files I name on the command >> line, unless I do an 'emacs -q' to not load any init files. >> >> Obviously, it must be something in my .emacs file, but I don't see >> anything that I've changed in the recent past. >> >> Where should I start to debug this? I don't get any errors when it >> runs, it just refuses to load anything from the command line. > > At the risk of stating the obvious, have you tried commenting out all of > your .emacs, then progressively uncommenting it to isolate the lines > that are causing the problem? comment-region (aka M-;) makes this > pretty quick to do. Also, the OP could try: emacs --debug-init file.txt If the file is not open it might be because there's a bug in ~/.emacs -- __Pascal Bourguignon__