Re: Xemacs Constant variable
Hello Hudson,
First off, I'd recommend sending email to xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org
instead of just me. I'm happy to help, but there are lots of smart
people on the list, and getting more eyeballs looking at the problem
is almost always useful.
On 7/27/06, hudson_dean(a)westpac.co.nz <hudson_dean(a)westpac.co.nz> wrote:
I previously had an earlier version of xemacs for windows working OK on my
Windows 2000 machine at work. No that I have uninstalled the earlier
version and installed 21.4.19 xemacs is starting up ok but presenting me
with the error message:
(1) (initialization/error) An error has occurred while loading
c:\Documents and Settings\M131665\.xemacs\init.el:
Cannot open load file: font-lock
I have ensured that EMACSLOADPATH is removed from the registry, but this
has not fixed the problem.
My wild-ass guess is that there is some weirdness associated with
having your home directory at C:\Documents and Settings\M131665,
probably because of the spaces in the pathname. You can test this
hypothesis by setting the environment variable HOME to point to
another directory and putting your startup script there.
If that doesn't work or if you really want to get to the bottom of the
problem, do the following:
1. start XEmacs with the -q option
2. evaluate (setq debug-on-error t) in the *scratch* buffer
3. M-x load-file c:\Documents and Settings\M131665\.xemacs\init.el
4. Use M-x report-xemacs-bug to send the resulting lisp backtrace to
xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org.
Hope this helps,
Vin
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