Re: no package.el emacs 24.5.1

[Sanjeev Sariya]

Hi John,
Thanks for your reply, and warm welcome. :)

I've been able to get emacs working. I'm running into more hiccups, will create 
separate threads for them.

Thanks for your attention to my post.

Best,
Sanjeev
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On Wednesday, 7 October 2015 15:37:16 UTC-4, John Mastro  wrote:
> Sanjeev Sariya <sanjeevsariya@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Emacs community,
> >
> > I'm new to emacs. I'm trying to add couple of bells and whistles to it.
> > I upgraded it's version to 24.5.1 Mac OSX
> 
> Welcome!
> 
> > When I type emacs on terminal I get:
> >
> > ;; This buffer is for notes you don't want to save, and for Lisp evaluation.
> > ;; If you want to create a file, visit that file with C-x C-f,
> > ;; then enter the text in that file's own buffer.
> 
> This is expected - it's the *scratch* buffer. If you instead invoke
> Emacs as `emacs /path/to/file' it will start you in a buffer showing
> that file's contents. Or, as the note above says, you can use `C-x C-f'
> (control-x followed by control-f) to open a file from within Emacs.
> 
> > There's no package.el present in
> >
> > ~/.emacs.d/
> 
> This too is expected - package.el is installed along with Emacs's other
> Lisp source files, not in your ~/.emacs.d/
> 
> > Without this nothing would load, and no M-x would work.
> 
> Can you be more specific regarding "nothing would load"? What did you
> try and what errors did you receive?
> 
> One thing you should probably do is to add this form at the top of your
> ~/.emacs.d/init.el file:
> 
> (package-initialize)
> 
> M-x not working might be related to your terminal rather than Emacs
> itself. For instance, on OS X I believe you use the "option" key for
> meta (rather than command, as I personally prefer and originally
> expected).
> 
> How did you install Emacs? You might find it more comfortable to use
> Emacs in its GUI mode rather than at the terminal.
> 
> -- 
> john