Re: emacs won't open files at startup from command line

[J. David Boyd]

Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> writes:

> Lennart Borgman wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:53 PM, J. David Boyd <david@adboyd.com> wrote:
> ...
>>> Found it!  I've been calling table.el for years, but somehow it must be
>>> incompatible with emacs 23.1.1.  Took that out, works great.  Never used
>>> the functionality in it anyway...
>>
>> The file table.el is included in Emacs now.
>>
>> This is not the first time I have seen quite interesting side effects
>> from using old versions of a file that has later been included in
>> Emacs. I think that some test should be made after startup for
>> potential such loadings. (This could be run conditionally after all
>> init files.)
>
> `list-load-path-shadows' is what you want.


Hey, that _is_ what I want!  Cool, thanks, that will help me clean up my
.emacs file immensely...