Re: Emacs doesn't load .emacs

[Hendrik Bilges]

Am Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:22:53 +0100 schrieb Martin Jost:
Hi Martin,

> So -no-site-file might be a try.

You were right :)

> 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"

$ locate site-start.el
/etc/emacs/site-start.el

$ less /etc/emacs/site-start.el
load "auctex.el" nil t t
load "preview-latex.el" nil t t

There doesn't seem to be anything suspicious, hmm? May be in some of
those other files?:

$ locate *start*.el
/etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el
/etc/emacs/site-start.d/50autoconf.el
/etc/emacs/site-start.d/00debian-vars.el
/etc/emacs/site-start.d/50preview-latex.el
/etc/emacs/site-start.d/51preview-latex.el
/etc/emacs/site-start.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup.el
/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/cus-start.el

I'm still beginning to understand these Lisp files, so I could need some
help. I uploaded the codes of

/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup.el
here: http://phpfi.com/170290

/etc/emacs/site-start.d/50autoconf.el here: http://phpfi.com/170291

/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/cus-start.el here: http://phpfi.com/170296

> HTH - and keep trying, emacs definitely is worth it !

If I wouldn't believe that I would have given up a couple of hours ago ;-)

Thank you all for your help so far!

Hendrik