在emacs中安装自动完成

Question

I am a new to Emacs , i downloaded auto-complete , moved it to ~/.emacs.d/plugins/ then modified the .emacs file to look like :

(add-to-list 'load-path (file-name-as-directory
                     (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/plugins/auto-complete"))\
)

(require 'auto-complete)
(global-auto-complete-mode t)

(ac-config-default)
(custom-set-variables
;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.                                   
;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.                
;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.                       
;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.                           
'(menu-bar-mode nil)
'(package-archives (quote (("melpa" . "http://stable.melpa.org/packages/") ("g\
nu" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")))))
(custom-set-faces
;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.                                       
;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.                
;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.                       
;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.                           
)

when i restart emacs , it displays the following error :

Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading `/Users/zeaksilva/.emacs':

File error: Cannot open load file, auto-complete

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.

Answer 1

Put (setq debug-on-error t) at the beginning of your init file. Or better yet, append --debug-init to the command line you use to invoke Emacs. That will open the debugger when the error occurs. But it seems that the file that has (provide 'autocomplete) in it, or that file's directory, is not in your load-path . When the debugger opens, use Ch v load-path , and see whether it is correct.

And try commenting out all of the extra stuff in your init file, which does not seem related to this problem: the custom-set-variables and custom-set-faces . IOW, simplify the sack of stuff that you try to debug.