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Albatross
Albatross

Reputation: 1065

Emacs Warning (initialization) -- File error

Whenever I open emacs on a linux server I'm using I get the following message which takes up half my screen:

Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading `/home/[my username]/.emacs':

File error: Cannot open load file, sm

To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the
cause of the error in your initialization file.  Start Emacs with
the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace.

What's happening here? I don't have any issues editing, except for this warning message in the way. How can I address this?

EDIT: My ~/.emacs file contains the following:

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;;;; Supermongo (SM) mode stuff
;;
(require 'sm)
(setq auto-mode-alist
      (append
       '( ("\\.sm\\'" . sm-mode) )
       auto-mode-alist)
      )

Upvotes: 0

Views: 763

Answers (1)

NickD
NickD

Reputation: 6402

Your load-path variable is probably set missing something. You need to add a path so that the sm.el (or sm.elc) file can be found by emacs. Something like this at the beginning of your .emacs file:

(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/directory/containing/sm.el")

Upvotes: 1

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