From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Carson Chittom <carson@wistly.net>, gebser@mousecar.com
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: finding the hork point in ~/.emacs
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 18:42:00 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1731fb09-fa74-49a7-bd02-df34d8a00544@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <orfl8zh6grjrv.fsf@granite.wistly.net>
> emacs -Q
> and then visit ~/.emacs. I then try to C-x C-e every individual
> statement, until I find the one that Emacs doesn't like.
Unless you have only a few such statements, see
what others have suggested as an alternative:
binary search. Use `M-x comment-region' to
comment out 1/2, then 3/4, 7/8, 15/16,... of the
file, till you find just what caused the problem.
If you use `C-u M-x comment-region' it UNcomments.
This is very quick, even if it doesn't seem so
at first.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-27 1:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-26 20:08 finding the hork point in ~/.emacs ken
2020-08-26 20:10 ` Yuan Fu
2020-08-26 20:12 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-26 22:38 ` ken
2020-08-26 23:27 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-26 23:39 ` ken
2020-08-27 0:23 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-27 4:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-27 17:24 ` ken
2020-08-27 17:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-27 22:40 ` ken
2020-08-28 6:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-28 11:56 ` ken
2020-08-27 17:17 ` finding the hork point in ~/.emacs: timerp ken
2020-08-27 17:34 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-08-28 10:07 ` hork point in ~/.emacs: -Q and --debug outputs in terminal & *Messages* ken
2020-08-28 11:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-28 12:08 ` ken
2020-08-28 12:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-28 13:02 ` ken
2020-08-28 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <d4982eda-fd8a-c2fd-3342-b446d83218fc@mousecar.com>
2020-08-29 12:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-29 16:02 ` hork point in ~/.emacs: needing emacs.pdmp & other ken
2020-08-29 18:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-29 18:59 ` Yuri Khan
2020-08-29 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-29 21:49 ` Togan Muftuoglu via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-31 11:30 ` ken
2020-08-28 13:13 ` hork point in ~/.emacs: -Q and --debug outputs in terminal & *Messages* ken
2020-08-28 13:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-27 17:41 ` finding the hork point in ~/.emacs: timerp Robert Pluim
2020-08-27 17:43 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-08-28 10:50 ` ken
2020-08-28 11:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-28 12:26 ` ken
2020-08-28 12:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-29 12:14 ` ken
2020-08-28 12:46 ` finding the hork point in ~/.emacs -> emacs.pdmp ken
2020-08-26 20:52 ` finding the hork point in ~/.emacs Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-26 23:37 ` ken
2020-08-27 0:46 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-08-27 2:18 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-27 0:53 ` Carson Chittom
2020-08-27 1:42 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-08-27 2:27 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-27 2:58 ` Drew Adams
2020-08-27 4:23 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-27 4:57 ` Drew Adams
2020-08-27 5:06 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
[not found] ` <mailman.1413.1598489645.2469.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2020-08-27 1:53 ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-08-27 2:19 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-27 2:59 ` Drew Adams
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