From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs (nowindows) get confused about line display
Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 04:36:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86shxcuoft.fsf@student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.9.1463791518.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
"David M. Karr" <davidmichaelkarr@gmail.com>
writes:
> That gave me the idea to run "emacs -q", and
> that does provide a clue. The display is fine
> after that, but when I load my .emacs after
> the fact (eval-current-buffer), it's then
> messed up. Before I do a binary search to
> narrow down what initially creates the
> symptom, are there any other guidelines for
> narrowing down something like this?
Well, probably not. Binary search is a brute
force method that is rather the opposite of
educated heuristics.
Here are some thoughts on binary search and
Emacs:
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/blogomatic/emacs/binary-search-to-find-bugs-in-emacs-init-files.html
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-20 21:28 Emacs (nowindows) get confused about line display David M. Karr
2016-05-20 23:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-05-21 0:45 ` David M. Karr
2016-05-21 0:51 ` David M. Karr
2016-05-21 1:19 ` John Mastro
2016-05-21 6:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.9.1463791518.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-05-21 2:36 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
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