From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: finding the hork point in ~/.emacs Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 04:27:20 +0200 Message-ID: <87a6ygj01j.fsf@ebih.ebihd> References: <1731fb09-fa74-49a7-bd02-df34d8a00544@default> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="28479"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:S/g6C3/ZDNwFxZ8tUWA+m5bRDiw= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 27 04:27:46 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kB7dh-0007JG-LT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2020 04:27:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49378 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kB7dg-0003E6-Nh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2020 22:27:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59108) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kB7dQ-0003E0-BY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2020 22:27:28 -0400 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:44964 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kB7dO-0004Tb-OI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2020 22:27:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kB7dN-0006yA-9D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2020 04:27:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/08/26 19:28:04 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:123791 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > Unless you have only a few such statements, see > what others have suggested as an alternative: > binary search. Use `M-x comment-region' to comment > out 1/2, then 3/4, 7/8, 15/16,... of the file, till > you find just what caused the problem. > > If you use `C-u M-x comment-region' it UNcomments. Try M-; for `comment-dwim'. It comments and then uncomments if the region contains a comment. Also, this preserves comments already there. So if you have ;; parens (require 'paren) (show-paren-mode t) (setq show-paren-delay 0) ;; fanfare / splash (setq inhibit-startup-screen t) (setq inhibit-startup-echo-area-message "incal") (setq byte-compile-verbose nil) do M-; ;; ;; parens ;; ;; (require 'paren) ;; (show-paren-mode t) ;; (setq show-paren-delay 0) ;; ;; ;; fanfare / splash ;; ;; (setq inhibit-startup-screen t) ;; (setq inhibit-startup-echo-area-message "incal") ;; (setq byte-compile-verbose nil) do M-; again ;; parens (require 'paren) (show-paren-mode t) (setq show-paren-delay 0) ;; fanfare / splash (setq inhibit-startup-screen t) (setq inhibit-startup-echo-area-message "incal") (setq byte-compile-verbose nil) M-; is also one of the most ergonomic keystrokes on the keyboard, so make sure to use it often :) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal