From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to quit? Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 01:29:23 +0000 Message-ID: <87egpdbguk.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: <87y4nm3svs.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424914198 6645 80.91.229.3 (26 Feb 2015 01:29:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 01:29:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Marcin Borkowski Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 26 02:29:47 2015 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 1YQnGt-0005lC-0Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2015 02:29:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57034 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YQnGr-0003I2-MJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 20:29:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45821) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YQnGg-0003FC-6Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 20:29:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YQnGZ-0008Kl-7d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 20:29:34 -0500 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp04.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.35]:60915) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YQnGZ-0008KM-2w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Feb 2015 20:29:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail05.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.26]) by outbound-smtp04.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2F57F98D02 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2015 01:29:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 31824 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2015 01:29:25 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[109.79.75.71]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 26 Feb 2015 01:29:25 -0000 In-Reply-To: <87y4nm3svs.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:36:39 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 81.17.249.35 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:102901 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski writes: > OK, so I have a problem, and it doesn't show up when I do emacs -Q. So > I take a deep breath and bisect my 900-line init.el... > > In LaTeX, however, when I have some weird problem, I can put \endinput > in a file, and everything past that is ignored. Is there anything like > that in Elisp? Yes, if you quote a lot of code then it becomes data, data in the top-level of a file is just thrown away. So, the equivalent of \endinput is: '( Then, at the very end of the file put: ) It can be useful to use the word "quote" which is equivalent, since this isn't done in normal programming so it sticks out. In that case begin with: (quote Of course, parenthesis must balance in the blocks commented out for this to work. "(top-level)" can be used in init files but not in other code. BR, Robert Thorpe