From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs won't open files at startup from command line Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:33:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ws2fwazg.fsf@eku238261.eku.edu> <87bpjqhvvw.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1256915530 16832 80.91.229.12 (30 Oct 2009 15:12:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:12:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 30 16:12:03 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N3t90-0000cJ-9t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:12:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52254 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3t8z-0008R7-3B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:12:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3sYV-0003pp-Uk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:34:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3sYQ-0003ir-W7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:34:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54728 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3sYQ-0003ij-NV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:34:14 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:57393) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N3sYQ-0003nb-4S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:34:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N3sYN-0003mk-DV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:34:11 +0100 Original-Received: from 198.204.74.254 ([198.204.74.254]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:34:11 +0100 Original-Received: from david by 198.204.74.254 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:34:11 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 39 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.204.74.254 User-Agent: Gnus/5.1299999999999999 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (cygwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:52pFOfZz71VL5pkE1+CkdJ3IBIE= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:69354 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes: > > Hi Dave, > >> Been trying to avoid that. I was hoping that it was a compilation >> error of some kind,... > > if it was, then you would have some error message in the *Messages* > buffer after startup. You could also start emacs as "emacs > --debug-init" to get a backtrace of the error. > > ,----[ (info "(emacs)Initial Options") ] > | `--debug-init' > | Enable the Emacs Lisp debugger for errors in the init file. *Note > | Entering the Debugger on an Error: (elisp)Error Debugging. > `---- > > > Bye, > Tassilo No, I don't mean compilation of the .el or .emacs file. I mean that, when I compiled this from code, that maybe there was an error in the piece that reads the command line to load the file, and I missed the error message going by. I think, just to be on the safe side, first I'll recompile it, and catch the output into a file. If that abides me nothing, I'll have to start commenting out my .emacs, a line at a time. Thanks, Dave