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Re: broken .emacs file
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: broken .emacs file |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Sep 2003 18:22:57 GMT |
In article <mailman.76.1063130750.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com> wrote:
>I did something very silly. I wanted to apply my .emacs file from my
>personal user to my superuser, so just did a: #cp -f /home/daniel/.emac*
>/root
>
>This messed things up royally though, and rm -fR /root/.emac* doesn't
>seem to help (or it just breaks more things).
What was the -R option for? Just plain "rm /root/.emacs" should do it.
>Is there a command like M-x blank-.emacs-file?
The -q option to emacs runs it without loading the .emacs file. You can
then edit it to correct any problems.
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Barry Margolin, barry.margolin@level3.com
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