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 15:53:30 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87vdhzp63c.fsf@galatea.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1256932479 12723 80.91.229.12 (30 Oct 2009 19:54:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:54:39 +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 20:54:32 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 1N3xYM-00021B-9s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:54:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45501 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3xYL-0006Du-Kh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:54:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3xXu-00069n-DJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:54:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3xXp-0005y1-Is for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:54:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52657 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3xXp-0005xn-DM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:53:57 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:56499) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N3xXo-0004g1-NN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:53:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N3xXn-0001lY-AW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:53:55 +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 20:53:55 +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 20:53:55 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 42 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:j22zDHFOr5wzMfPM2l2sJLzfigY= 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:69363 Archived-At: 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 command >>>> 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? I 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: >> >> 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. No errors at all... I was hoping that there 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! I've been calling table.el for years, but somehow it must be incompatible with emacs 23.1.1. Took that out, works great. Never used the functionality in it anyway... Dave