[ESS] making sure proper ~/.emacs is loading
Mark W Kimpel
mwkimpel at gmail.com
Tue Apr 3 05:32:15 CEST 2007
I am running emacs/ess on openSuse 10.2. I thought Sven's idea for
showing function arguments was great and tried to implement it, the
first time I have tried to customize my emacs/ess installation. When I
went to my ~/.emacs file, I saw the code below:
;; Custum Settings
;; ===============
;; To avoid any trouble with the customization system of GNU emacs
;; we set the default file ~/.gnu-emacs-custom
(setq custom-file "~/.gnu-emacs-custom")
(load "~/.gnu-emacs-custom" t t)
I took this to indicate that I should not be changing the .emacs file
itself, but that I should create my own .gnu-emacs-custom file and place
the custom code in that. After I did that, I couldn't get Sven's tools
to work. I then tried appending Sven's code to the .emacs file and
again, the tools didn't work.
I am a newbie emacs user. One of the first things I can think of to test
would be to make sure that the above files are actually loading, not
some files in another directory. Is there anything easy that I could put
in the appropriate file (.emacs or .gnu-emacs-custom, you tell me) that
would let me know if the file has loaded into emacs or not?
I am sure this is my mistake, not a problem with Sven's code, so if
anyone could suggest where I should start, I'd be grateful.
Mark
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Mark W. Kimpel MD
Neuroinformatics
Department of Psychiatry
Indiana University School of Medicine
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