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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Carson Chittom <carson@wistly.net>, gebser@mousecar.com
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: finding the hork point in ~/.emacs
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 18:42:00 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1731fb09-fa74-49a7-bd02-df34d8a00544@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <orfl8zh6grjrv.fsf@granite.wistly.net>

> emacs -Q
> and then visit ~/.emacs.  I then try to C-x C-e every individual
> statement, until I find the one that Emacs doesn't like.

Unless you have only a few such statements, see
what others have suggested as an alternative:
binary search.  Use `M-x comment-region' to
comment out 1/2, then 3/4, 7/8, 15/16,... of the
file, till you find just what caused the problem.

If you use `C-u M-x comment-region' it UNcomments.

This is very quick, even if it doesn't seem so
at first.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-27  1:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-26 20:08 finding the hork point in ~/.emacs ken
2020-08-26 20:10 ` Yuan Fu
2020-08-26 20:12 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-26 22:38   ` ken
2020-08-26 23:27     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-26 23:39       ` ken
2020-08-27  0:23         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-27  4:08     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-27 17:24       ` ken
2020-08-27 17:42         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-27 22:40           ` ken
2020-08-28  6:41             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-28 11:56               ` ken
2020-08-27 17:17     ` finding the hork point in ~/.emacs: timerp ken
2020-08-27 17:34       ` Noam Postavsky
2020-08-28 10:07         ` hork point in ~/.emacs: -Q and --debug outputs in terminal & *Messages* ken
2020-08-28 11:13           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-28 12:08             ` ken
2020-08-28 12:39               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-28 13:02                 ` ken
2020-08-28 13:19                   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                     ` <d4982eda-fd8a-c2fd-3342-b446d83218fc@mousecar.com>
2020-08-29 12:47                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-29 16:02                         ` hork point in ~/.emacs: needing emacs.pdmp & other ken
2020-08-29 18:13                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-29 18:59                             ` Yuri Khan
2020-08-29 19:21                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-29 21:49                             ` Togan Muftuoglu via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-31 11:30                             ` ken
2020-08-28 13:13                 ` hork point in ~/.emacs: -Q and --debug outputs in terminal & *Messages* ken
2020-08-28 13:21                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-27 17:41       ` finding the hork point in ~/.emacs: timerp Robert Pluim
2020-08-27 17:43         ` Noam Postavsky
2020-08-28 10:50         ` ken
2020-08-28 11:17           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-28 12:26             ` ken
2020-08-28 12:41               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-29 12:14                 ` ken
2020-08-28 12:46             ` finding the hork point in ~/.emacs -> emacs.pdmp ken
2020-08-26 20:52 ` finding the hork point in ~/.emacs Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-26 23:37   ` ken
2020-08-27  0:46     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-08-27  2:18       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-27  0:53 ` Carson Chittom
2020-08-27  1:42   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-08-27  2:27     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-27  2:58       ` Drew Adams
2020-08-27  4:23         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-27  4:57           ` Drew Adams
2020-08-27  5:06             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1413.1598489645.2469.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2020-08-27  1:53     ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-08-27  2:19   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-08-27  2:59     ` Drew Adams

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