[OS X Emacs] init file not being read

[xah lee]

sorry i misread your original post.

maybe try starting with --no-site-file, to see anything in side-wide  
init file reset your init file path. (also, you prob knew, -q or --no- 
init-file is for not loading personal init file.)

um... but since you said the problem happens in aquamacs and carbon  
emacs too (presumably started from GUI, and each of these has their  
own site wide file)... so maybe the problem is something not related  
to emacs, but rather with OS X...

  Xah


On Dec 24, 2007, at 8:55 PM, Roger Levy wrote:

Yeah, I'd already tried this.  I've reduced my ~/.emacs file to

(setq-default column-number-mode t)
(setq-default line-number-mode t)

and it still doesn't get read.  Using M-x eval-buffer when ~/.emacs is
open does work, though.

I'm wondering if something in OS X is telling emacs that my home
directory is something other than what it actually is...is this  
possible?

Thanks too for the help.

Roger

xah lee wrote:
> typically, you just comment out half of the lines. Try it. Then  
> comment
> out the remaining half, etc.
>
> or, start with lines you most suspect.
>
>   Xah
>   xah at xahlee.org
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> On Dec 24, 2007, at 5:19 PM, Roger Levy wrote:
>
> Some time in the last couple of months, my emacs stopped reading my
> ~/.emacs init file at startup.  This affects Carbon Emacs,  
> Aquamacs, and
> emacs invoked from the terminal.  Does anyone have suggestions for  
> where
> I should start poking around to see what's wrong?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Roger
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