[OS X Emacs] init file not being read

[David Reitter]

Roger,

What do the following two expressions evaluate to (use M-: or, in a  
buffer, C-x C-e):

(user-login-name)
(user-real-login-name)
command-line-args
user-init-file

I presume you've already checked the *Messages* buffer for useful  
information.

I haven't heard about such a problem before. You can always try to  
create a new user and see if, when logged in as such, emacs will read  
that user's init file.

- D

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On 25 Dec 2007, at 23:24, Roger Levy wrote:

> 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
>>> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
>>>
>>>
>>> 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