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Re: emacs won't open files at startup from command line
From: |
J. David Boyd |
Subject: |
Re: emacs won't open files at startup from command line |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:35:19 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.1299999999999999 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (cygwin) |
Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@eku.edu> writes:
> david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:
>
>> I could use some help troubleshooting this.
>>
>> When I start up emacs, it doesn't load the files I name on the command
>> line, unless I do an 'emacs -q' to not load any init files.
>>
>> Obviously, it must be something in my .emacs file, but I don't see
>> anything that I've changed in the recent past.
>>
>> Where should I start to debug this? I don't get any errors when it
>> runs, it just refuses to load anything from the command line.
>
> At the risk of stating the obvious, have you tried commenting out all of
> your .emacs, then progressively uncommenting it to isolate the lines
> that are causing the problem? comment-region (aka M-;) makes this
> pretty quick to do.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tyler
Been trying to avoid that. I was hoping that it was a compilation error
of some kind, and that this message would spark someone's memory into
remembering "oh yeah, I heard about that...".
But, what you said is what I suppose I'll have to do...
Thanks for the reminder of the obvious!
Dave