I found this solution on the EmacsWiki: The problem is the ownership of the directory ~/.emacs.d/server when you also have “Administrators” rights on your account. Create the directory ~/.emacs.d/server and set the owner of this directory to your login name and the problem is gone. As I have a “Dutch” version of Windows 7 I … Read more
If you’re setting $PATH inside your Emacs, you might well be on OS X. GUI applications are not started via your shell, so they see different environment variables. Here’s a trick which I use to ensure the $PATH inside Emacs is the same one I see if I fire up a terminal (but see “update” … Read more
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It’s worth noting why Emacs defers the package initialization: See C-hig (emacs) Package Installation RET, and in particular: The reason automatic package loading occurs after loading the init file is that user options only receive their customized values after loading the init file, including user options which affect the packaging system. In some circumstances, you … Read more