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From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
Cc: GNU Emacs List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Can I ask a Simple question?
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 18:13:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9C086AF1-4AFD-411D-A3D8-72F0FEC8193B@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061003133603.M1005@serenity.region4.net>


Am 03.10.2006 um 13:00 schrieb neil:

> im guessing that some small detail could have been wrong.

The small detail is PK – this word is used somewhere in your .emacs  
files.

If you copy the contents of the *Backtrace* buffer into the *scratch*  
buffer you can then find a long and not clipped line that might  
contain a comment like:

	; Reading at buffer position 12345

Now you can open the faulty ELisp file and execute:

	M-x goto-char RET 12345 RET

and the cursor is at the position where the error happens. Well,  
mostly. Sometimes, often, this position is at the end of a large if  
or progn clause ...

--
Greetings

   Pete

If all else fails read the instructions.
                                          - Donald Knuth

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-03 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-02 16:31 Can I ask a Simple question? neil
2006-10-02 17:07 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-03 12:34   ` neil
2006-10-03 12:38     ` David Kastrup
2006-10-02 17:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.7677.1159810570.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-03 13:00   ` neil
2006-10-03 16:13     ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
     [not found]     ` <mailman.7702.1159892008.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-03 16:38       ` Johan Bockgård
2006-10-03 20:43     ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-11 13:26     ` robert.thorpe
2006-10-04 19:06 ` jmg3000
2006-10-04 20:58   ` Drew Adams
2006-10-05 15:06   ` rgb
2006-10-11 12:04 ` Sam Peterson

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