Hi Era,
Thanks for all your help in all of the comments you've made
(i think each one has something useful).
Just for reference for anybody who happens to have the
same problem and stumbles over this thread, what i ended
up doing is:
sudo apt-get --reinstall install emacs22-gtk
which seems
Actually /etc/emacs/site-start.el is for site customizations, and is
empty by default. The files in /etc/emacs/site-start.d are loaded on
startup as well; I'm not sure if this is a Debian/Ubuntu customization
or the default behavior of Emacs. But your *Messages* snippet above
indicates that this
I'm taking the liberty to mark this as Invalid, as per your latest
comment. (However, -Q also disables any installed Emacs extensions, so
the problem need not necessarily be in a local site file.)
For the record, dpkg -S tells you which package installed a particular
file. So the question is rea
Ah, bingo!
emacs -Q works without error.
So first, thanks for pointing out the -Q option which looks
very useful, and second, i suppose there must be a buggy
local site file. (But hard to imagine what, as we have
not customized anything on a site-wide basis.)
I see from the emacs man page that
Oh, and could you please also check with emacs -Q, to rule out a local
site file with a bug in it.
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> (Could it be trying
> to eval something which was not meant to be eval'ed?)
That's what I'm guessing. Can you do an ls -l and dpkg -S on
/usr/bin/emacs still, please? It should be a symlink to
/etc/alternatives/emacs which in turn should be a symlink to
/usr/bin/emacs22 (and so on for a couple
emacs is aliased to `emacs -nw'
emacs is /usr/bin/emacs
But --- there's no particular reason for the symbol 'on' to be
defined, is there? (Could it be trying
to eval something which was not meant to be eval'ed?)
dan
era wrote:
> Do you have a wrapper of some sort? What does "type -all emacs"
Do you have a wrapper of some sort? What does "type -all emacs" in bash
return? I can reproduce the symptom with
emacs --eval on
but emacs22 as shipped in 9.10 does not do this, I believe. I have seen
no other reports of this behavior and it's over six months since 9.10
was released so I doubt
Thanks Era for looking into this.
The answer is "yes": If i start with
-q (or --no-init-file) it comes up
exactly the same.
So i don't think the fault is the
~/.emacs.
The *Messages* buffer has this in it:
("emacs")
Loading encoded-kb...done
command-line: Symbol's value as variable is v
I'm not sure I understand. If you start up emacs with emacs -q, do you
still get this error?
I'm setting the Status of this bug report to Incomplete to mark it as
pending on a reply from you. It can be set back to New once you supply
the requested information. Thank you.
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