[ESS] making sure proper ~/.emacs is loading

[Kiermeier, Andreas (PIRSA - SARDI)]

Hi Mark,

Based on the help for the variable custom-file, it holds the file name
where emacs's customization (through customization system - see Options
menu -> Customize Emacs) are stored.

So, anything of the usual commands that you had (previously) placed in
your ~/.emacs file should stay there. By the sounds of the help you
should change the custom-file at all, but let emacs take care of that.

So, bring back Sven's code into your .emacs file and give it that whirl.

With respect to finding out what files are being loaded, I usually look
at the *Messages* buffer - that may help you here, too.

Hope this help.

Cheers,

Andreas



-----Original Message-----
From: ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:ess-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Mark W Kimpel
Sent: Tuesday, 3 April 2007 13:02
To: ess-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [ESS] making sure proper ~/.emacs is loading

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
--
Mark W. Kimpel MD
Neuroinformatics
Department of Psychiatry
Indiana University School of Medicine

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