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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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