From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Martin Jost" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs doesn't load .emacs Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 16:22:53 +0100 Organization: Siemens Business Services Message-ID: References: <4qu2hpFops3pU1@individual.net><1162469132.089595.161970@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com><4qu9coFops3pU2@individual.net> <4quaviFops3pU3@individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162482050 18315 80.91.229.2 (2 Nov 2006 15:40:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 15:40:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 02 16:40:46 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gfeg8-0003LX-T6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:40:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gfeg8-0003y7-3j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:40:28 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!colt.net!peernews3.colt.net!news0.de.colt.net!newsfeed1.sbs.de!news.mch.sbs.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: mhhb26tc.ww200.siemens.net Original-X-Trace: daniel-new.mch.sbs.de 1162480972 29259 139.21.8.165 (2 Nov 2006 15:22:52 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@siemens.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 15:22:52 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142883 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:38503 Archived-At: "Hendrik Bilges" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:4quaviFops3pU3@individual.net... > I have to correct myself. After installation there is no ~/.emacs yet. If > I change an option in emacs and choose to save it, it is written. Fine so > far. If I restart emacs and try to save options a second time, it shows me > a message stating that it was invoked with -q option and that saving would > override existing configuration. There might also be a trivial explanation: Further startup-code simply erased your output in the status line ! So have a look in the buffer "*Messages*". Probably, you find your output there. (I would consider any distribution, which breaks basic emacs featues (like .emacs) by misfeatures in a site-start as seriously broken...) If no, ...from the info file for emacs: Your site may also have a "site startup file"; this is named `site-start.el', if it exists. Like `default.el', Emacs finds this file via the standard search path for Lisp libraries. Emacs loads this library before it loads your init file. To inhibit loading of this library, use the option `-no-site-file'. My comments on it: So -no-site-file might be a try. If you want to hunt down a site-start.el, You can use the command "describe-variable" to get the value of the variable "load-path" (this is the mentioned standard search path for Lisp libraries) You will get somehting like this: load-path's value is (""/pd/emacs21.4/share/emacs/21.4/site-lisp" "/pd/emacs21.4/share/emacs/site-lisp" "/pd/emacs21.4/share/emacs/21.4/leim" "/pd/emacs21.4/share/emacs/21.4/lisp" .... HTH - and keep trying, emacs definitely is worth it ! Martin