Re: error after reading init file with r

Re: error after reading init file with r

[Cor Gest]

Some hopefully ableminded and witty human entity
disguising itself as: Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de> wrote :

> Hello,
> 
> I get an error-message when I read the init file again. It says:
> 
> Error in ~/.gnus: stringp
> 
> What does that mean? I get the same message after closing Gnus and starting it
> in the same Emacs-session. So right now, I have to start Emacs again.

Well, it could be a lot, but mainly this means that there is some
syntactical error in your .emacs.

a nice way which uses the elisp power in debugging is:
rename .emacs to .emacs.el
now automatically cl-mode is invoked vs text-mode. 

visit the file .emacs.el
 
C-x evaluate buffer read the comments in the the message-buffer and
act according to the mentioned errors.

emacs is rather smart in making one feel dumb. ;-)

cor

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Re: error after reading init file with r

[Cor Gest]

Some hopefully ableminded and witty human entity
disguising itself as: Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de> wrote :

> > rename .emacs to .emacs.el
> > now automatically cl-mode is invoked vs text-mode. 
> >
> > visit the file .emacs.el
> >  
> > C-x evaluate buffer read the comments in the the message-buffer and
> > act according to the mentioned errors.
> 
> I don't get any mistake!? It just says: Already loaded.

You did, C-x C-f .emacs.el as to edit it.

M-x load-file .emacs.el will result in the message allready loaded.

The debugger should find the errors.

cor

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