[ESS] A problem on nuke-trailing-whitespace (migration from Ubuntu 10.04 to Wheezy)

Rodney Sparapani rsparapa at mcw.edu
Mon Feb 11 21:18:30 CET 2013


On 02/11/2013 01:23 PM, ottorino wrote:
> Hi all,
> the problem I'm facing today is most probably due to my recent migration
> to a new OS.
>
> I installed wheezy from netinst: I wanted to see which were the packages
> necessary for me.
>
> The installation went through many (recorded !)
> apt-get install packagename
> I'm not sure I installed all I need for the system to work properly as I
> was used to.
>
> I suppose the problem is in my .emacs, which I copied from the old
> computer, commenting some offending lines.
>
> I can work with R and ESS, but on quitting emacs I receive the following
> message
>
> Cannot open load file: nuke-trailing-whitespace

Hi Ottorino

Well, I sympathize since I often run into teething problems on a new 
system.  However, I don't see how this problem could have been generated 
by ESS.  So, I think you should look elsewhere such as Emacs itself.

Rodney

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Rodney Sparapani, PhD  Center for Patient Care and Outcomes Research
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