I have tried following: 1. emacs -q
2. load src/init.el 3. then add the directory src to variable load-path 4. then to load pen.el I could see that it is asking for s-join function which it cannot find, it looked like Emacs was looping, beeping, totally unresponsive. I had to kill it. I am using Emacs development version, are you also using it? In general I was thinking that init.el and init-setup.el will set it up for me. The file installation.org is unclear, what do I need to do to start using pen.el ? $ emacs -q Connection lost to X server ':0' When compiled with GTK, Emacs cannot recover from X disconnects. This is a GTK bug: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/221 For details, see etc/PROBLEMS. Fatal error 6: Aborted Backtrace: emacs(+0x1516d4)[0x55ba843c36d4] emacs(+0x463d8)[0x55ba842b83d8] emacs(+0x468d3)[0x55ba842b88d3] emacs(+0x45940)[0x55ba842b7940] emacs(+0x459fe)[0x55ba842b79fe] /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(_XIOError+0x5f)[0x7fac94d5bb9f] /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(_XEventsQueued+0xa7)[0x7fac94d59217] /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(XPending+0x62)[0x7fac94d4aa92] /usr/lib/libgdk-3.so.0(+0x8d722)[0x7fac95530722] /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_prepare+0x1b0)[0x7fac94ed5bc0] /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(+0xa7a06)[0x7fac94f29a06] /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_pending+0x2a)[0x7fac94ed371a] /usr/lib/libgtk-3.so.0(gtk_events_pending+0x10)[0x7fac95779690] emacs(+0x105c5d)[0x55ba84377c5d] emacs(+0x13e932)[0x55ba843b0932] emacs(+0x13f635)[0x55ba843b1635] emacs(+0x228e9b)[0x55ba8449ae9b] emacs(+0x993fa)[0x55ba8430b3fa] emacs(+0x7d3c9)[0x55ba842ef3c9] emacs(+0x82525)[0x55ba842f4525] emacs(+0x83cf4)[0x55ba842f5cf4] emacs(+0x686f2)[0x55ba842da6f2] emacs(+0x943a9)[0x55ba843063a9] emacs(+0x14729e)[0x55ba843b929e] emacs(+0x1b4047)[0x55ba84426047] emacs(+0x137404)[0x55ba843a9404] emacs(+0x1b6773)[0x55ba84428773] emacs(+0x1373ab)[0x55ba843a93ab] emacs(+0x13cd76)[0x55ba843aed76] emacs(+0x13d0a2)[0x55ba843af0a2] emacs(+0x4e929)[0x55ba842c0929] /usr/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd5)[0x7fac938bfb25] emacs(+0x4ef2e)[0x55ba842c0f2e] Aborted ~/Programming/git/pen.el $ -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/
