Re: problem reading ~/.emacs.desktop

[ken]

On 09/14/2009 11:09 PM ken wrote:
> Okay, I found a work-around for the first problem, but ran into another:
> 
> In the process of a system upgrade, I pulled in last week's
> ~/.emacs.desktop.  And, yes, I upgraded emacs to v.23.1.1.  Now I get
> this error when emacs loads:
> 
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable Í)
>   (desktop-create-buffer Í "/home/mine/file2open.html" "file2open.html"
> (quote html-helper-mode) (quote (auto-fill-mode abbrev-mode)) 5535
> (quote (nil nil)) nil nil (quote (...)))
>   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/home/zl/.emacs.desktop" nil t)  ;
> Reading at buffer position 1139
>   load-with-code-conversion("/home/zl/.emacs.desktop"
> "/home/zl/.emacs.desktop" t t)
>   load("/home/zl/.emacs.desktop" t t t)
>   desktop-read()
>   #[nil "    ƒ
> 
> 
> Anyone know how to fix this?  If so, much appreciated.
> 

My (uneducated) hunch is that desktop-create-buffer doesn't like the
first argument.  This argument is a number (which in my email client is
displayed as an 'I' with a diacritical mark above it). When the above
Debugger output is displayed in emacs the number is '\315'.  If I look
at this ~/.emacs.desktop file with the "less" command, it is displayed
as "<81><CD>"... for every instance of a buffer.  (?)

According to the emacs doc on "desktop-create-buffer", this first arg is
"desktop-file-version"; I don't know what that is and have no idea why
the function "desktop-file-version" doesn't like it.

Anybody able to figure out what this problem is?

tia.


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