From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs (nowindows) get confused about line display Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 04:36:54 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86shxcuoft.fsf@student.uu.se> References: <573F818A.9040604@gmail.com> <86wpmoux68.fsf@student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1464882743 4412 80.91.229.3 (2 Jun 2016 15:52:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 15:52:23 +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 Jun 02 17:52:22 2016 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 1b8Uuz-0002MW-Fh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2016 17:52:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48150 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b8Uuy-0005OD-Oe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2016 11:52:20 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: EoOtCC1fCYcttx6jjhWUlA.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:zoNkSXi0R3Z0ovaxI3S+M8P9sH0= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:217832 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110217 Archived-At: "David M. Karr" 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 -- underground experts united .... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 Emacs Gnus Blogomatic ......... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/blogomatic - so far: 37 Blogomatic articles -