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Re: .emacs is not getting executed


From: Peter Dyballa
Subject: Re: .emacs is not getting executed
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:18:39 +0100


Am 24.11.2008 um 05:15 schrieb Anand S. Dhankshirur:

Actually i don't know anything about the lisp programming.
This .emacs file, i took it from some one else.
...

I just want the key bindings to work.

So throw away everything you copied, except these empty statements that are, empty or not empty, always the last ones in a user init file

        (custom-set-variables
;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/ paste it!
          ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
         )
        (custom-set-faces
;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
          ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
         )

and just leave your key binding things in it. With time you'll add this or that, then knowing what you're doing.

If invocation with --debug-init does not point to the error, then try to sanely comment have of your init file. If the error persits, then it's in the not yet commented region. So comment, sanely, half of this half, re-launch. If the error went away, then it was in the comment half. So un-comment this and comment the previously uncommented half. Iterate until the error is the only uncommented statement.

Another way: start with your key bindings and the two default statements and add one statement after other from the .emacs copy you fetched somewhere.

--
Greetings

  Pete

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
                                – Robert Heinlein







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