[OS X Emacs] init file not being read

[Roger Levy]

Thanks for the thought -- indeed invoking emacs from the command line
with --no-site-file seems to result in exactly the same situation as
invoking it with no options, but I'm not sure how much insight that
gives me :(

Any other thoughts?

Thanks again for the help.

Roger

xah lee wrote:
> 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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