Hello, I have a `org-init.el' file in my home directory, with common settings used when in batch mode.
That works well when that file is a regular file: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- sva@MEDIACENTER$ make html Exporting file /cygdrive/c/home/sva/file.txt to HTML... emacs --batch -Q --eval "(setq debug-on-error t) (add-to-list 'load-path \""~/src/org-mode/lisp"\") (add-to-list 'load-path \""~/src/org-mode/contrib/lisp"\")" -l "~/org-init.el" file.txt -f org-export-as-html Emacs 24.0.93.1 Org-mode version 7.8.03 OVERVIEW Loading vc-svn... Loading vc-git... Exporting... Exporting... Saving file c:/home/sva/file.html... Wrote c:/home/sva/file.html HTML export done, pushed to kill ring and clipboard --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- However, if I put it somewhere, and make a symlink from my home directory to its real place, Emacs fails loading it: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- sva@MEDIACENTER$ make html Exporting file /cygdrive/c/home/sva/file.txt to HTML... emacs --batch -Q --eval "(setq debug-on-error t) (add-to-list 'load-path \""~/src/org-mode/lisp"\") (add-to-list 'load-path \""~/src/org-mode/contrib/lisp"\")" -l "~/org-init.el" file.txt -f org-export-as-html Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable !<symlink>ÿþ/) eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*> nil "c:/home/sva/org-init.el" nil t) ; Reading at buffer position 14 load-with-code-conversion("c:/home/sva/org-init.el" "c:/home/sva/org-init.el" nil t) load("c:/home/sva/org-init.el" nil t) command-line-1(("--eval" "(setq debug-on-error t) (add-to-list 'load-path \"~/src/org-mode/lisp\") (add-to-list 'load-path \"~/src/org-mode/contrib/lisp\")" "-l" "~/org-init.el" "file.txt" "-f" "org-export-as-html")) command-line() normal-top-level() Makefile:33: recipe for target `file.html' failed make: *** [file.html] Error 127 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I find this very strange, as I thought the symlink feature would be transparent for upper applications. This does not seem to be the case, though. Any idea on how to circumvent this, if possible? Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban