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Re: startup error


From: Andy Stewart
Subject: Re: startup error
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:22:06 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux)

蚂蚁 <qingant@gmail.com> writes:

> Drew Adams wrote:
>>> After installing auto-install, I was getting the following error while start
>>> my emacs with `--debug-init' option 
>>>
>>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable <!DOCTYPE)
>>>   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*<2>> nil "/home/ting/elisp/auto-install.el"
>>> nil t)  ; Reading at buffer position 10
>>>   load-with-code-conversion("/home/ting/elisp/auto-install.el"
>>> "/home/ting/elisp/auto-install.el" nil t)
>>>   require(auto-install)
>>>   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/home/ting/.emacs" nil t)  ; Reading at
>>> buffer position 1377
>>>   load-with-code-conversion("/home/ting/.emacs" "/home/ting/.emacs" t t)
>>>   load("~/.emacs" t t)
>>>
>>> How could I fix it?
>>
>> It looks like you are trying to evaluate a buffer that contains not Emacs 
>> Lisp
>> but HTML or XML: (void-variable <!DOCTYPE). My guess is that you downloaded a
>> Web page, not the source file that the Web page linked to (somehow). Check 
>> the
>> content of your file auto-install.el - my guess is it is HTML.
>>
>>
>>
> just test my client
Please download auto-install.el from
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/auto-install.el

And replace file /home/ting/elisp/auto-install.el
Then delete file /home/ting/elisp/auto-install.elc (if you have this
file).

Then restart Emacs, i think everything will be okay.

  -- Andy





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