Make sure tha path to the packages are added via add-to-list. Also, as mentioned in the previous post on debug, doremi and elscreen should be towards the beginning of .emacs. Doremi conflicts with multi-term: (require ‘multi-term) (multi-term-keystroke-setup) (setq multi-term-program “/bin/bash”) Here is what i added (not necessarily in this order) to my .emacs file: ;;… Read more »