Subject: Re: bug#14483: Problem with loading ~/.emacs file

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 21:52:22 -0400

Petr Hracek wrote:

> BZ(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=827898)

Insufficient data for meaningful answer.
(Also, this seems to be a year-old report from a pretest version of
Emacs 24.1.)

> my ~/.emacs file looks like:

Works fine for me with 24.3.

> (unless (featurep 'xemacs)
>   (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs-config/lisp.emacs" t)
>   (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs-config/lisp.xemacs" t))

Doesn't seem to make sense to add lisp.xemacs when not using XEmacs.

> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs-config/lisp" t)

These 3 directories could contain literally anything at all.

The OP might try

(setq debug-on-quit t)

at the start of .emacs, then interrupt it with ctrl-g when it hangs and
examine the backtrace.