From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Roland Rau Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: recentf-mode works 'by hand' but not if started from .emacs Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:20:32 -0500 Organization: Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Message-ID: References: <1168614875.355310.217590@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168962092 9003 80.91.229.12 (16 Jan 2007 15:41:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:41:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 16 16:41:29 2007 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 1H6qRD-00049a-0F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:41:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H6qRD-00052l-61 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:41:27 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!guardian.oit.duke.edu!gargoyle.oit.duke.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-152-3-243-108.aas.duke.edu Original-X-Trace: gargoyle.oit.duke.edu 1168960832 25624 152.3.243.108 (16 Jan 2007 15:20:32 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@news.duke.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:20:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144757 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:40361 Archived-At: Greg Bognar wrote: > > Do you have the file that holds the list of recent files, that is, > ~/.Emacs/.recentfiles (or whatever you set that variable or, if you don't > set it, ~/.recentf, which I think is that default)? I have the default setting, i.e .recentf in my home directory. > Have you modified the menus? No. What happens if you run Emacs with an ~/.emacs which only > contains the line (recentf-mode 1)? Do you get the submenu in the File > menu? I get the same error message as in my initial post. Thanks again. Do you have any other idea? Best, Roland