emacs for windows 28.2 problems loading .emacs

emacs for windows 28.2 problems loading .emacs

[John Covici]

Hi.  So, I was using some old version of emacs -- gotten through
chocolatey, and things were working, but I upgraded their package to
emacs 28.2 and now when I start emacs, it seems not to load my desktop
and I am not sure what else its not doing.  I tried debug-init, but it
did not give me any errors.

How can I find out what is happening and see what its doing or not?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici wb2una
         covici@ccs.covici.com

Re: emacs for windows 28.2 problems loading .emacs

[Jude DaShiell]

If .emacs is still in home directory has home directory been changed by
version upgrade or is home directory undefined?


--
 Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com>
 "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo.
 Please use in that order."
 Ed Howdershelt 1940.

On Tue, 13 Feb 2024, John Covici wrote:

> Hi.  So, I was using some old version of emacs -- gotten through
> chocolatey, and things were working, but I upgraded their package to
> emacs 28.2 and now when I start emacs, it seems not to load my desktop
> and I am not sure what else its not doing.  I tried debug-init, but it
> did not give me any errors.
>
> How can I find out what is happening and see what its doing or not?
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
>

Re: emacs for windows 28.2 problems loading .emacs

[Corwin Brust]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 5:33 PM Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> wrote:
>
> If .emacs is still in home directory has home directory been changed by
> version upgrade or is home directory undefined?
>

I suspect this same.

See if the value of `user-init-file' might be different between the two version

I can't speak for how the chocolatey build is made or what it might do
but setting the system environment variable HOME should influence
where Emacs looks for .emacs and .emacs.d/ for at least the GNU (and
unpatched self-made) Windows builds.

RE: emacs for windows 28.2 problems loading .emacs

[John Covici]

I do have some more information -- the .emacs starts to load, but it never loads my .emacs.desktop which is in the same directory as the .emacs .  So, how can I figure out what actually the .emacs is doing?  The only thing I see in the *Messages* buffer is a message indicating that the save-place is loaded, so this is what I need to do --somehow trouble the .emacs file and see where it is going wrong.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2024 6:34 PM
To: John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>; help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs for windows 28.2 problems loading .emacs

If .emacs is still in home directory has home directory been changed by
version upgrade or is home directory undefined?


--
 Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com>
 "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo.
 Please use in that order."
 Ed Howdershelt 1940.

On Tue, 13 Feb 2024, John Covici wrote:

> Hi.  So, I was using some old version of emacs -- gotten through
> chocolatey, and things were working, but I upgraded their package to
> emacs 28.2 and now when I start emacs, it seems not to load my desktop
> and I am not sure what else its not doing.  I tried debug-init, but it
> did not give me any errors.
>
> How can I find out what is happening and see what its doing or not?
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
>

Re: emacs for windows 28.2 problems loading .emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com>
> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:03:41 -0500
> 
> 
> I do have some more information -- the .emacs starts to load, but it never loads my .emacs.desktop which is in the same directory as the .emacs .  So, how can I figure out what actually the .emacs is doing?  The only thing I see in the *Messages* buffer is a message indicating that the save-place is loaded, so this is what I need to do --somehow trouble the .emacs file and see where it is going wrong.

How does your .emacs load the desktop file?

RE: emacs for windows 28.2 problems loading .emacs

[John Covici]

-----Original Message-----
From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+covici=ccs.covici.com@gnu.org <help-gnu-emacs-bounces+covici=ccs.covici.com@gnu.org> On Behalf Of Eli Zaretskii
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2024 10:02 AM
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs for windows 28.2 problems loading .emacs

> From: "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com>
> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:03:41 -0500
> 
> 
> I do have some more information -- the .emacs starts to load, but it never loads my .emacs.desktop which is in the same directory as the .emacs .  So, how can I figure out what actually the .emacs is doing?  The only thing I see in the *Messages* buffer is a message indicating that the save-place is loaded, so this is what I need to do --somehow trouble the .emacs file and see where it is going wrong.

How does your .emacs load the desktop file?

Fixed, just had to customize the correct variables i.e. where to search for the .desktop file -- not sure why it worked before.

Thanks.