On Mon, May 01, 2023 at 09:03:27PM +0800, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 7:38 PM <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

[...]

> > That would mean that the file is loaded, but Emacs still shows you
> > the *scratch* buffer. Otherwise, the file doesn't get loaded at
> > all.
> >
> > This might give hints to find the problem.
> 
> See the testing below:
> 
> $ emacs my-icur.tex
> 
> `C-x b RET` gives the following info:
> 
> 
> Loading server...done
> Iedit default key binding is C-;
> Loading /home/werner/.emacs.d/var/recentf-save.el (source)...done
[...]

Now I'm confused. What we see here is a *Messages* buffer, not a buffer
list (what I'd expect C-x b to give us). But there are some messages
in there hinting at errors during initialization.

Does your problem change if you invoke Emacs with -Q option?

That is:

  $ emacs -Q my-icur.tex

Cheers
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t