From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikos Apostolakis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 'destroys' latex files Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:35:48 -0500 Message-ID: <87y7o2xtvf.fsf@gmail.com> References: <1168965020.972207.75690@51g2000cwl.googlegroups.com> <1168972738.843874.79670@l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169001660 30345 80.91.229.10 (17 Jan 2007 02:41:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:41:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 17 03:41:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H70jv-00019B-DU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:41:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H70jK-0003Nl-O6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:40:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H70j9-0003N3-0d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:40:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H70j7-0003Ko-6g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:40:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H70j7-0003Kl-1j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:40:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H70j6-0001Im-KE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:40:36 -0500 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1H70iY-0000ZW-Kn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:40:03 +0100 Original-Received: from user-0cdf4ca.cable.mindspring.com ([24.215.145.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:40:02 +0100 Original-Received: from nikos.ap by user-0cdf4ca.cable.mindspring.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:40:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: user-0cdf4ca.cable.mindspring.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2Y3FEOAaZMLAKdtm14IbtDr7Cks= 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:40384 Archived-At: Maarten Bergvelt writes: > > The thing to do is first start emacs without customization: > > emacs -q latextest.tex > > Do you see the strange behaviour? If yes, then there is some > systemwide customization, but I doubt that. > > If no, then copy .emacs to .emacsold and start hacking on .emacs. > If yes then try emacs -q -no-site-file latextest.tex especialy since the OP runs Debian. Usually part of the installation of a Debian emacs package (like x-symbol that David mentioned) is site-wide customization. HTH Nikos