Glyn Millington <glyn.milling...@gmail.com> writes: > "Roland Winkler" <wink...@gnu.org> writes: > >> On Mon Jun 23 2014 Steven Arntson wrote: >>> Here's the strangest thing I've encountered in emacs for awhile. I >>> just started a new session, and BBDB still wasn't working. I hit >>> C-x C-b to list the buffers and it informed me of this buffer: >>> >>> bbdb 20446 Emacs-Lisp ~/.emacs.d/bbdb >>> >>> As far as I know, I have no file named "bbdb"---mine is >>> ".bbdb". So I thought, well, this explains it. A ghost file is >>> loading for some reason. And indeed, this buffer contains no data >>> beyond a header. >> >> This is somewhat strange, but not completely strange. The variable >> bbdb-file is initialized using a call to locate-user-emacs-file. >> >> If this finds an old-fashioned file ~/.bbdb, this becomes the value >> of bbdb-file. If there is no such old-fashioned file, the value of >> bbdb-file becomes ~/.emacs.d/bbdb. Then the latter file will be >> created by BBDB, if emacs cannot find neither ~/.bbdb nor >> ~/.emacs.d/bbdb. >> >> The reason for this is that nowadays all such Emacs files should >> reside in ~/.emacs.d/ instead of cluttering your home directory. >> >> So all this really means that for some strange reason upon startup >> Emacs does not find your file ~/.bbdb. >> >> The function locate-user-emacs-file is nowadays used by many emacs >> packages. I'd be surprised if their was something wrong with it, >> though I cannot copletely exclude this either. If you do find the >> problem to be related to this function, this might be a bug in emacs >> itself. > > Hmmm - could this be related to the OP's bbdb config being spread across > two files, init.el and .gnus ? > > The line telling emacs where to find the bbdb config file is in .gnus, > but bbdb is required in init.el. > > So is Emacs creating the ~/.emacs.d/bbdb buffer, because it can't find > the ~/.emacs.d/.bbdb file until .gnus is loaded? > > If so then shoving all the bbdb config stuff into init.el might do the > trick (works for me here). > > On the other hand I could be barking up a totally wrong tree :-) > > > atb > > Glyn > >
This makes so much sense, I just went ahead and joined the two files. Whether it helps or not, it seems much more logical than what I had going on before! -steven ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
