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From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ediff on Win32
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:14:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45CADBF0.1020601@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Xns98CF3539A99Awssddcgisnet@208.49.80.252>

Bob Babcock wrote:
> I have a patch to apply to an emacs lisp file.  I think this means I need 
> to use one of the ediff functions.  The problem is, when I load ediff, I 
> get a short beep and emacs becomes unresponsive.  I can't RTFM because even 
> ediff-documentation triggers the hang.  This is Win/2K, emacs 21.3.1 or a 
> CVS version from http://ourcomments.org/cgi-bin/emacsw32-dl-latest.pl.  
> Comand-line option -q to not load .emacs doesn't help.

Stick with -q for now, just to simplify debugging the problem.

How do you load ediff?  Try using --debug-init as well as -q,
or `M-x set-variable RET debug-on-error RET t RET' after you've
started emacs, and post the resulting *Backtrace* buffer.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-08  8:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-06  5:19 ediff on Win32 Bob Babcock
2007-02-08  8:14 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.4166.1170922499.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-09  5:31   ` Bob Babcock
2007-02-09  7:16     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-09 16:08       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]       ` <mailman.4236.1171037300.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-09 18:15         ` Bob Babcock

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