From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs won't open files at startup from command line Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:35:36 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87vdhzp63c.fsf@galatea.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1256934980 20597 80.91.229.12 (30 Oct 2009 20:36:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:36:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs help , Emacs-Devel devel To: "J. David Boyd" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 30 21:36:13 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N3yCg-00028t-QQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:36:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58216 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3yCf-0004xE-VQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:36:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3yCZ-0004wp-8z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:36:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3yCU-0004vm-CT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:36:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=32798 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3yCU-0004vi-3M; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:35:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-yx0-f191.google.com ([209.85.210.191]:58754) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N3yCT-0002w6-Fl; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:35:57 -0400 Original-Received: by yxe29 with SMTP id 29so3129302yxe.14 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:35:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=prHdL3rdU6S5SOS+Id5QVzvtc5f/JA6cIXi9kQVt9s4=; b=eTAuNsIjDaNnMVRPunMpIj11ksgN0/9W/0H7HJMewUw3tWX7iBeDAoKz49BaB6XeAK waUBS11p4UGWf5h7wjJmzkzwF4yAmNDwO7PoBF31QwKIqwLDPL/fBdRsU9i7Q10vBfE9 KgOK/T69N5/fgEJ7CUgVwVSxKsRrYUqrWFoW0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=DsYm3aVH8916hpGCN3eLAo6XhgQbZbl4oenm+7G7rg+1ZDFfFQ9mWsZPFMyvMW2CVP eqBAaMGszd3fcXB2B2NElpkOYvyvbTvlZeKV2/eNGV6Deugo6P0lpXvFKt/ZbyEcgjK4 4lLH8ibkfU50IqK1ymTFy1lYBy2SysGZK9JB8= Original-Received: by 10.100.82.15 with SMTP id f15mr2313746anb.190.1256934956114; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:35:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:116476 gmane.emacs.help:69364 Archived-At: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:53 PM, J. David Boyd wrote: > david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes: > >> pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes: >> >>> 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 comman= d >>>>> 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? =C2=A0I 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: >>> >>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 emacs --debug-init file.txt >>> >>> If the file is not open it might be because there's a bug in ~/.emacs >> >> >> That I have tried. =C2=A0No errors at all... =C2=A0I was hoping that the= re would >> be one, but everything loads just fine, no errors, just doesn't load the >> file(s) named on the command line. >> >> Thanks for the idea, though. > > Found it! =C2=A0I've been calling table.el for years, but somehow it must= be > incompatible with emacs 23.1.1. =C2=A0Took that out, works great. =C2=A0N= ever used > the functionality in it anyway... > > Dave The file table.el is included in Emacs now. This is not the first time I have seen quite interesting side effects from using old versions of a file that has later been included in Emacs. I think that some test should be made after startup for potential such loadings. (This could be run conditionally after all init files.)