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 there's a --debug-init for debugging your init file: is there something similar for the site files? Now, for completeness, to answer your other questions: ls -l /usr/bin/emacs gives: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2009-11-23 11:07 /usr/bin/emacs -> /etc/alternatives/emacs which under ls -l becomes lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2009-11-23 11:07 /etc/alternatives/emacs -> /usr/bin/emacs22 which under ls -l becomes lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2009-11-23 11:07 /usr/bin/emacs22 -> /etc/alternatives/emacs22 which under ls -l becomes lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2009-11-23 11:07 /etc/alternatives/emacs22 -> /usr/bin/emacs22-gtk which under ls -l becomes -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5530856 2010-03-25 21:43 /usr/bin/emacs22-gtk (so it's almost like a piece of code). dpkg -S emacs yields 1806 lines of output, which i don't want to append without confirmation (i could put it into a file and attach it if that would be suitable for the launchpad reporting system). emacs-version (in emacs) evaluates to "22.2.1", but i don't know if this is what you mean by "which precise version of emacs you have installed". And my reference to xemacs may be completely wrong, but indeed it is to 262316. I realize that these must be completely separate trees, but i thought there might be a similar cause, such as a dropped site file or something along those lines. Thanks Era for your help! dan era wrote: > Oh, and could you please also check with emacs -Q, to rule out a local > site file with a bug in it. > -- Symbol's value as variable is void: on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/583133 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
