From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to debug problem with emacsclient and init file Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:58:43 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87zl14d7ws.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87633txf3q.wl%jim@sdf-eu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271347418 1433 80.91.229.12 (15 Apr 2010 16:03:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:03:38 +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 Apr 15 18:03:37 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O2RXO-0005Rs-T2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:03:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41049 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O2RXM-0007eA-Vc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:03:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O2RTB-0005o9-4q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:59:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44911 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O2RT9-0005n9-Gy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:59:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O2RT3-0002SX-Oq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:59:07 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:57408) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O2RT3-0002PP-Hq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:59:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O2RSt-0001sY-UK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:58:51 +0200 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:58:51 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:58:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0l05FkFPoFVa2Belftl1dslX4a8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72686 Archived-At: Jim Burton writes: > So I tried starting the emacs daemon without my init file and > everything is fine -- I can open graphical emacsclients. This seems > weird because I can open a new (X or terminal) emacs without getting > any complaints about the init file. I thought about adding my init > stuff back in gradually but there's rather a lot of it, and I wondered > if there is a better way to debug this problem? I'm not sure this even works when going thru emacsclient but does turning on debug-on-error show you any more userfull info: Put: (setq eval-expression-debug-on-error t) Into ~/.emacs to find out.