From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: problem reading ~/.emacs.desktop Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:30:11 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4AAECA72.4050103@mousecar.com> <4AAF054D.8010300@mousecar.com> <4AAF5D4C.2040402@mousecar.com> <4AB09E80.40904@mousecar.com> 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 1253089964 32591 80.91.229.12 (16 Sep 2009 08:32:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:32:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: GNU Emacs List To: gebser@mousecar.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 16 10:32:37 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 1MnpvA-0002yD-T1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:31:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50900 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MnpvA-0008Pi-Cm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:31:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MnpuP-0008Kz-FJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:30:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MnpuL-0008KV-Tn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:30:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40574 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MnpuL-0008KS-OR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:30:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-bw0-f220.google.com ([209.85.218.220]:53248) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MnpuL-0003jL-B8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:30:33 -0400 Original-Received: by bwz20 with SMTP id 20so3484861bwz.42 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:30:32 -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=Fq0oOW0ijJdHMhyzolSO9Y7xEEF6fklC+jMM9gFqZc0=; b=tU5c0M43qj0BWMOGhK10JZ0tV+uWz3pFJTBuJ55wXhrASb6n4N5DS4Io2Z4+uKbBMs tKqxi52mMji2YdbE6GiBEf6iYSEmldAeFqOQUDc4paCPBgDSmy9X4TLUhtg67yU44jAs 4222ZW+S/LLw//rA9R5OsAgqqngA3L9qlyJvE= 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=htendGxEZmn+nX6ZoJFDkKyxq9SmlY+5tt6b13TwRv3l9jxZoe47aWkFsrZYkzMJ7h QlCOQ9Tux6mzeWJ3Zh+wNxASwKlP5uQ+AFVGzOyT9YUU2fMttzIyQYQL+YwknD8iLk/J /8yZv+0UwvZ1+tUdxHQA1ScZ784tf8tKYJGxg= Original-Received: by 10.239.134.226 with SMTP id a34mr810650hba.7.1253089832128; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:30:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4AB09E80.40904@mousecar.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:68203 Archived-At: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:14, ken wrote: > In the newly created ".emacs.desktop" file (created by the upgraded > version of emacs), this same argument is displayed as an 'I' with a > diacritical mark over it-- the same as the old one was in the Debugger. > =C2=A0(?) =C2=A0The value of that character (as determined by "C-x =3D") = is 205. ?? With Emacs 23.1, the version should be 206. I'd like to know what happens when you do the following - create an empty directory and cd to it - set HOME to that directory - create a test file (let's call it test.txt) with a couple lines - then emacs -Q test.txt M-x desktop-save > So then I edited ".emacs.desktop" to replace the 'I' with the > diacritical mark with "205" (without the quotes). =C2=A0And I comment out= the > code in ~/.emacs which invokes "desktop-read" and "desktop-save" and > reload emacs and run these by hand. =C2=A0I find that emacs has changed "= 205" > to "206". =C2=A0And though the files are read into emacs fine, I get this > different error from Debugger: > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Local variables entry is missing > the suffix") > =C2=A0signal(error ("Local variables entry is missing the suffix")) > =C2=A0error("Local variables entry is missing the suffix") > =C2=A0hack-local-variables() > =C2=A0normal-mode(t) > =C2=A0after-find-file(nil t) > =C2=A0find-file-noselect-1(# "~/pub/g-mob" nil nil > "~/pub/g-mob" (38245125 64771)) > =C2=A0find-file-noselect("/home/zl/pub/g-mob") > =C2=A0desktop-restore-file-buffer("/home/zl/pub/g-mob" "g-mob" nil) > =C2=A0#[nil " =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 A > > This error isn't clear enough for me to figure out. =C2=A0And it's probab= ly > over the head of most, if not all, of the people on this list. =C2=A0But = if > anyone has a cogent guess as to how to fix this, I'd be willing to give > it a try. > > Thanks again, Juanma, for your help. =C2=A0It got me a little further tow= ard > resolution. > > > > --=20 Juanma