At 12:29 AM 3/9/00 GMT, you wrote:
>David Cabana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>> I've spent several hours trying to install JDE with no luck. Here are the
>> facts
>>
>> OS: Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, service pack 5
>> Emacs version: GNU Emacs 20.6.1 (i386-*nt4.0.1381)
>> JDE version: 2.1.6 beta21 (also tried 2.1.5, same lack of
>> results)
>>
>> HOME directory: D:\Home
>> JDE location D:\Home\emacs\site\jde-2.1.6beta21
>
>So far, so good.
>
>> .emacs file D:\Home\.emacs.txt
>>
>> I tried to rename the .emacs.txt file to .emacs but Windows insisted that
>> the file must have a type.
>
>? No, Windows doesn't do that. How were you trying to rename the file? You
>can use Emacs or the Explorer to set the name.
>
>Alternative filenames include _emacs or .emacs.el.
>
>> The complete contents of .emacs file:
>>
[snip]
>>
>> Emacs runs just fine, but so far as I can tell, the JDE does not load. The
>> test I have tried is switching Emacs into java mode and looking for the JDE
>> menu. It does not appear. Is this an appropriate test? If not, what is?
>
>To get the JDE, you need to be in jde-mode. You can do that with:
> M-x jde-mode
>
>Or, you can set your auto-mode-alist to do it automatically.
>
No. David does not need to set auto-mode-list. The JDE does this for him
when it is loaded. The reason David does not see the JDE menu is that the
JDE is never loaded. The reason that the JDE is not loaded is because
David's startup file has a name (i.e., .emacs.txt) that Emacs does not
recognize and thus is not being loaded. If David changes the name of his
startup file to _emacs as I suggested to him in a private message, the JDE
should load and the menu should appear.
- Paul
