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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 12:36:23 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.1299999999999999 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (cygwin) |
pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:
> 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.
>
> Also, the OP could try:
>
> emacs --debug-init file.txt
>
> If the file is not open it might be because there's a bug in ~/.emacs
That I have tried. No errors at all... I was hoping that there would
be one, but everything loads just fine, no errors, just doesn't load the
file(s) named on the command line.
Thanks for the idea, though.