From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Reeder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Init error message Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 00:08:01 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1fgba.43206$sf5.31886@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net> <8765qq1ee2.fsf@china.shootybangbang.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso885915 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1047428558 5884 80.91.224.249 (12 Mar 2003 00:22:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 00:22:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 12 01:22:36 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18su0x-0001Wi-00 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 01:22:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18stpQ-0003Rn-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:10:40 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Pan/0.11.2 (Unix) X-Comment-To: "John Paul Wallington" Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.211.78.13 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com Original-X-Trace: rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net 1047427681 12.211.78.13 (Wed, 12 Mar 2003 00:08:01 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 00:08:01 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110993 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7493 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7493 > Probably you have > > (global-set-key 'up 'whatever) > > in your .emacs file. If that is so, say > > (global-set-key [up] 'whatever) instead. Thank you. That sovled the problem which had to do with emulating up/down cmd history echoing in the shell. >> Please direct me to a _searchable_ archive of usenet > > groups.google.com Went there and that's better than what I'd come up with on my own. However, I need to get grounded in working with this .emacs file. The syntax is a mystery and I just want to use the editor! Probably a common whine. Is the only option to learn enough of LISP to hack it profitably without having to cry for help over every little init error msg? BTW, here's the new error: File error: "Cannot open load file", "auto-save" I've located the line with the offending code; interesting it uses the apostrophe instead of brackets (require 'auto-save) but when I switch I get a different error on the same function which seems to be telling me that it doesn't like the brackets. Like I said I'm in the woods here (but willing to work). Finally, I should confess to previously using an alternative to GNU Emacs because I had found these configuration issues more solvable under the alternative. Now I'm abandoning that program for GNU Emacs. Is it possible that the .emacs coding varies between the two emacsen? Kevin