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From: Gracjan Polak <gracjanpolak@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Wrong type argument: arrayp, nil
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 20:25:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAChsM3RMkV9s85E-uXyhJWDE_RmU-7fv+fUzRFRy0iM4utVcTQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <840abf5d-4b46-4630-a416-4df26b8f7770@default>

Thanks, that got me started.

Is there a debug tutorial somewhere or d and c and q is all that is needed
in real life?

How does you debug-edit-debug cycle look like? Is C-x C-e all I should be
using or is there something that has a concept of 'a breakpoint'?



2014-04-20 20:16 GMT+02:00 Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>:

> First, do this, to get a human-readable backtrace:
>
> 1. Set variable `debug-on-error' to t.
> 2. Provoke the error, so you can see which function is problematic.
>    Quit the debugger using `q'.
> 3. Load the source files for the package in question.  This is to
>    give you a more human-readable backtrace.
> 4. Provoke the error again.
>
> You can now report the problem to the package maintainer.  If the
> responsible code is delivered as part of Emacs (not some 3rd party)
> then report the problem to Emacs Dev using `M-x report-emacs-bug'.
>
> If you want to debug it further yourself, step through the debugger
> after step #4 above.  Use `d' to single-step and `c' to skip through
> a step.  Use `q' to quit or step through until the problematic
> function returns.
>
> Some people prefer `edebug' to `debug'.  I prefer `debug', which is
> what you get with the above recipe.
>


  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-20 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-20 17:44 Wrong type argument: arrayp, nil Gracjan Polak
2014-04-20 18:16 ` Drew Adams
2014-04-20 18:25   ` Gracjan Polak [this message]
2014-04-20 21:00     ` Drew Adams
     [not found] <mailman.19942.1398016221.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-20 18:17 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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