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: r.f.e. emacs tutorial Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 19:05:55 +0200 Message-ID: <87wo1om0ss.fsf@ebih.ebihd> References: Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25316"; 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:VcUSF8wectoekdP74QC57fnWJU8= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 24 19:08:18 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 1kAFxB-0006TW-9j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2020 19:08:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40038 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kAFxA-0005Z0-C6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2020 13:08:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37040) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kAFv4-0003K3-KD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2020 13:06:06 -0400 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:54976 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 1kAFv2-0003uH-S4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2020 13:06:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kAFuy-0003qe-VJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2020 19:06:00 +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 = 2020/08/24 11:31:56 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, 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:123747 Archived-At: ... what is "r.f.e.", Radio Free Europe? Jude DaShiell wrote: > on the emacs debugger for when .emacs and similar > files get messed up how to use emacs --debug to > locate problems and repair those problems? There seems to be no such option as --debug according to the man page emacs(1) (GNU Emacs 26.1, 2007 April 13 - hm ... that old a man page?) OTOH, Emacs doesn't report an error on $ emacs --debug # maybe because it is a prefix of --debug-init, as e.g. --xyz does report 'Unknown option'. (If indeed a prefix thing, it should be dropped IMO. Error prone and doesn't look right - by definition, even.) Anyway, keeping up with the man page, it says: --debug-init Enable Emacs Lisp debugger during the process‐ ing of the user init file ~/.emacs. This is useful for debugging problems in the init file. Here, (info "(emacs) Initial Options") it says --debug-init’ Enable the Emacs Lisp debugger for errors in the init file. *Note Entering the Debugger on an Error: (elisp)Error Debugging. which is a reference to (info "(elisp) Error Debugging") where (how-many "init") ; 4 HIH :) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal