From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ediff on Win32 Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:14:40 -0700 Message-ID: <45CADBF0.1020601@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170922525 12917 80.91.229.12 (8 Feb 2007 08:15:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 08:15:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 08 09:15:15 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HF4R0-000452-0p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:15:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HF4Qz-00046w-8Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:15:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HF4Qk-00044N-3c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:14:58 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HF4Qi-00042T-Kl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:14:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HF4Qi-00042Q-Et for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:14:56 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HF4Qi-0007kf-3q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:14:56 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HF4QZ-00070K-VP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:14:47 +0100 Original-Received: from c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.9.156.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:14:47 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:14:47 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40953 Archived-At: 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