Re: emacs won't open files at startup from command line

[J. David Boyd]

pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:

> Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@eku.edu> writes:
>
>> david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:
>>
>>> I could use some help troubleshooting this.  
>>>
>>> When I start up emacs, it doesn't load the files I name on the command
>>> line, unless I do an 'emacs -q' to not load any init files.
>>>
>>> Obviously, it must be something in my .emacs file, but I don't see
>>> anything that I've changed in the recent past.
>>>
>>> Where should I start to debug this?  I don't get any errors when it
>>> runs, it just refuses to load anything from the command line.
>>
>> At the risk of stating the obvious, have you tried commenting out all of
>> your .emacs, then progressively uncommenting it to isolate the lines
>> that are causing the problem? comment-region (aka M-;) makes this
>> pretty quick to do.
>
> Also, the OP could try:
>
>     emacs --debug-init file.txt
>
> If the file is not open it might be because there's a bug in ~/.emacs


That I have tried.  No errors at all...  I was hoping that there would
be one, but everything loads just fine, no errors, just doesn't load the
file(s) named on the command line.

Thanks for the idea, though.