Re: woody ignores my .emacs
Hi Henrik,
I've got 0644 as permissions also. echo $HOME gives what would be
expected (ie. /home/username).
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Henrik Enberg wrote:
> <luc.lefebvre@mcgill.ca> writes:
>
> > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Henrik Enberg wrote:
> >
> >> <luc.lefebvre@mcgill.ca> writes:
> >>
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I have been using a .emacs file for a while and would like to keep on
> >> > doing so. With my new Woody install emacs appears to be ignoring it. I
> >> > have tried emacs -q, emacs -debug-init <to see if my .emacs was rejected
> >> > because of some bug>, emacs -no-site-file, have added (setq
> >> > inhibit-default-init), all to no avail.
> >>
> >> What happens if you do C-x C-f ~/.emacs? Do you get the correct file?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > When I do as you say, I get my .emacs file <which is not loaded at
> > startup>...
>
> Hmm, this is really strange. It sorta sounds like you $HOME variable is
> screwy at the time you start Emacs, But I have no I dea what could
> cause it.
>
> What are the file permissions for ~/.emacs? I have 0644 FWIW.
>
>
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