From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "ian.tegebo" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: better error messages in my *Messages* buffer? Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:44:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <69d783d3-573b-4f13-bcc8-461b803fbf28@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395333908 5942 80.91.229.3 (20 Mar 2014 16:45:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 16:45:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 20 17:45:18 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WQg5m-0005nC-02 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 17:45:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48295 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQg5l-0000yF-Ip for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:45:17 -0400 X-Received: by 10.66.189.228 with SMTP id gl4mr18584866pac.26.1395333849777; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:44:09 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.178.196 with SMTP id da4mr110061igc.17.1395333849665; Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:44:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!ur14no10686155igb.0!news-out.google.com!gi6ni236igc.0!nntp.google.com!ur14no10686147igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=50.131.221.192; posting-account=WTqZCgoAAAA6dyV2bUqB6QLZ3CU5AjGe Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 50.131.221.192 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 16:44:09 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:204375 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96647 Archived-At: Other people have suggested reading the manual regarding debugging and Edebug in particular; I'd agree with that. However, *Messages* really should report from where and when a message arrived. I used the following as a basis for my own tweaking: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DebugMessages By itself, I think the above hack is a bit too noisy. In particular, it interrupts completion in the minibuffer. On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 12:17:05 PM UTC-7, kleine...@gmx.at wrote: > Hi there, > > > > learing elisp is fun, but debugging isn't for me at the moment. > > >From ruby and from python I'm spoiled with additional info like > > > > Error X in file Y line Z > > > > but my *Messages* buffer just tells me: > > > > error in process filter: Wrong type argument: listp, [...] > > > > What do you do in that case to find out which line of your code creates > > that error? > > > > Thanks, > > Martin