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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I decided to try out the dashboard package. Flukey, because I don't much go in for gingerbread, but I'd seen it mentioned a couple times & thought, "Why not?"</p> <p>Installed it, put some simple config in the init, restarted. Hmm. What did I do wrong? Restarted, it showed up this time. Well, it looked okay, nothing special. I clicked out of it into an org file. It took a minute to register. WTH? Buffer-face-mode was gone! I was in an org file with default Emacs faces. This is messed up. Let me restart again.</p> <p>Whoa. I'm getting a Flycheck error now, and faces are still wrong. Well, this doesn't fly. I'll comment out the dashboard stuff. WTH? The buffer's read-only! I toggle read-only, modeline shows file is writable, yeah, no. Let me switch to a different buffer. WTH? <code>C-x b</code> doesn't work! I'm flummoxed. I'm starting to hate on dashboard.</p> <p>Close the program. Start from a command line <code>emacs -Q</code>. That still works, anyway. Get to the init file, comment out the dashboard stuff, restart. Yeah, okay, great - I have my key bindings and my faces back. But, dashboard is the gift that keeps on giving. I still have the Flycheck error - </p> <p><code>Wrong type argument: symbolp, (flycheck-mode-set-explicitly)</code></p> <p>Where did that come from? It wasn't here yesterday. And hey, guess what? A recursive grep for <code>flycheck-mode-set-explicitly</code> through all the files in <code>elpa</code> comes up empty.</p> <p><code>$ ls -R */*.el | xargs grep 'flycheck-mode-set-explicitly'</code></p> <p>It doesn't get any better than this.</p> <p>Actually, it does. I reluctantly decide to go to the Flycheck page and submit an issue, try to find out where this is coming from. Hahaha! Joke's on me. They don't handle issues from Windows. They dump them into a bucket and if someone comes along & handles them, great. In the meantime...</p> <p>In the meantime, I switch to Flymake.</p> <p>Afterward, I listened to "Not Just the Tudors" podcasts for three hours to regain my equilibrium. God, I love Emacs.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/naugiedoggie"> /u/naugiedoggie </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/q7lumw/dashboard_flycheck_dotemacs_hell/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/q7lumw/dashboard_flycheck_dotemacs_hell/">[comments]</a></span> |