From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Mysterious emacs failure
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:17:32 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dj3e7t$8u4$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CKGdnajHHMY8mMnenZ2dnUVZ_s-dnZ2d@comcast.com>
Denny Dahl wrote:
> Have been hacking at this problem all day and have learned some
> interesting things but do not have a solution yet. I was able to
> successfully start the "bare impure emacs" executable named temacs.
> This runs successfully for a few minutes, then it goes nuts attempting
> (unsuccessfully) to create the directory /.emacs.d over and over
> again.
That suggests that your HOME environment variable is set to "/" or not
set at all.
--
Kevin Rodgers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-18 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-17 16:47 Mysterious emacs failure Denny Dahl
2005-10-17 20:12 ` Denny Dahl
2005-10-18 18:17 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2005-10-22 6:40 ` Tim X
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