emacs <filename> will open scratch buffer instead of the file

[jilen]

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[CLowbrow]

File does open in a buffer but the buffer isn't visible.

[javenschuetz]

This thread is a year old I think, so I'm only posting this in case somebody else stumbles upon it and it helps:

I found this on stack overflow and it worked for me for a different version of emacs:

"My ~/.emacs.d folder was owned by root with restrictive r/w/x privileges, so I was unable to access as any non-root user.

Make sure your current user has read privileges for the emacs config files/directories.

This fixed it for me:

sudo chown -R user:group ~/.emacs.d/
The -R works recursively in the directory."

source:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2418057/opening-emacs-without-the-scratch-buffer-when-opening-a-file