Acme process starts but nothing appears to happen

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Commented out the line that opens the README file in lib/profile
2. Closed Acme
3. Started it again

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected Acme to work normally, except not automatically open the README file 
on start-up. Instead the Acme.exe process appears to start (and I have to open 
Task Manager to end it) but the Acme window never appears.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
acme-0.13

Please provide any additional information below.
I can't recall having done anything else that could have broken Acme. Now it 
just won't work. I've even deleted the entire directory and unpacked the zip 
file again to start fresh, but Acme still won't work.

Do some settings get saved to my local HDD that I need to erase? Or do you 
think this issue is unrelated to the change I made to my profile file?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jmatthew...@gmail.com on 22 Jun 2011 at 10:24

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Sorry, forgot to mention that this is on Windows Vista. Acme me had been 
working fine for several days before this happened, too.

Original comment by jmatthew...@gmail.com on 22 Jun 2011 at 10:25

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the acme-sac distribution is actually inferno-os (with some changes) packaged 
such that the acme editor runs in the foreground [1].  acme.exe is the same as 
emu(1), and it is lib/profile that launches acme [2].  to avoid opening README, 
just remove the "$home/README" part from the line that launches acme, instead 
of commenting out the whole line.

> Do some settings get saved to my local HDD that I need to erase?

yes.  when acme-sac is launched for the first time in a system, it sets up 
$home at %APPDATA%/acme-home [3].  you'd need to uncomment the line launching 
acme in %APPDATA%/acme-home/lib/profile.

[1] http://ipn.caerwyn.com/2006/03/lab-59-acme-sac.html
[2] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/acme-sac/DNi8a_Y43yU/FnKMl1EDPTYJ
[3] http://code.google.com/p/acme-sac/source/browse/lib/sh/profile

Original comment by arvin...@gmail.com on 22 Jun 2011 at 5:21

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Makes sense! When I saw the line that launches acme I didn't look carefully 
enough, and I guess I thought that acme was already started and that line was 
just like a remote control call to add a file to acme. Thanks for clearing it 
up.

I had looked in the %APPDATA% directories too, but somehow I missed the 
acme-home directory.

Original comment by jmatthew...@gmail.com on 23 Jun 2011 at 12:08

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So had you resolved the issue, Matthew?
I've met exactly the same problem on Windows 7 x64. :(

Original comment by Dmitry.A...@gmail.com on 14 Jul 2014 at 9:17