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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
