Re: Unable to open some files in emacs with emacs 25.3.

[Sharon Kimble]

Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:

> Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:
>
>> Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> writes:
>>
>>> Sharon Kimble wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ever since updating to emacs 25.3 yesterday
>>>> I find that I cannot open some of my files in
>>>> emacs. This is the case in point
>>>
>>> It is common and understandable that a thing or
>>> two breaks with updates. Ironically... But you
>>> can't make an omelet without cracking the eggs.
>>>
>>>> [[~/cron/boudiccas.crontab]]
>>>>
>>>> On Monday that link would open the file in
>>>> emacs, today, it doesn't and the only change
>>>> is the new emacs version.
>>>
>>> Do you get an error message and if so what
>>> does it say?
>>
>> No, there is no error message but it does say in *Messages* 'Running
>> calligraauthor /home/boudiccas/cron/boudiccas.crontab...done', but it
>> never completely opens to be able to read the actual file.
>>
>
> Why is calligraauthor running? Can you take it out of the
> loop altogether?

calligraauthor is not running until it is called by emacs calling it. 

>
> Can you run it from the command line and see if it completes?  It
> seems to pop up a window when I do that, so I'm not sure if emacs is
> waiting for the application to finish before continuing.

Unfortunately not. calligraauthor opens very easily with no problems on
its own, and it also opens 'boudiccas.crontab' with zero problems once
calligraauthor is launched on its own.

I suspect that there is something hard-wired into the new version of
emacs which forces emacs to open up some links in calligraauthor,
instead of emacs itself, as it used to do with emacs-25.1.

When I compiled this version of emacs I used these commands in this
order -

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
./configure
make
sudo make install
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Thanks
Sharon.
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