Re: r.f.e. emacs tutorial

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>]

In internet context request for enhancement similar to R.F.C. request
for comments.

On Mon, 24 Aug 2020, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text
editor wrote:

> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 13:05:55
> From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
>     <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: r.f.e. emacs tutorial
>
> ... 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 :)
>
>

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