Re: "emacs --daemon" does not load init file

[Richard Riley]

Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:

> "Chengqi(Lars) Song" <songcq@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using emacs23 snapshot, now it has a fancy function "emacs
>> --daemon" to run emacs in background. But when I use "emacsclient -c"
>> to connect to the daemon, I found that my ~/.emacs is not
>> loaded. That's so bad, is there anyone experienced in emacs daemon?
>> Thanks.
>>
>> best
>> lars
>
> using CVS emacs, I use "emacs -daemon" and it executes the .emacs or
> init fine. "--" or "-" both seem to work from a bash shell btw.
>
> Are you sure there is no error in your .emacs? Did you run emacs -daemon
> from the command line where you can see any error output?
>
> Just to be sure - you dont expect emacs -c to run the .emacs?
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I meant : "emacsclient -c"


And if Debian based Linux : And did you be sure to run "sudo 
update-alternatives --config" for emacs
and emacsclient?