From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: automatic selection during search Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 08:20:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <392624dc-163b-4dfc-beee-f167966431e1@default> References: <4a36c97d-b279-4b3d-bde1-c392402b57ef@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380295272 18105 80.91.229.3 (27 Sep 2013 15:21:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:21:12 +0000 (UTC) To: bjvilfan@gmail.com, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 27 17:21:12 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VPZqs-0005YA-21 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 17:21:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37115 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPZqr-0007ik-Ku for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:21:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49892) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPZqS-0007f8-9x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:20:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPZqF-0001LX-Gr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:20:40 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:49328) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPZqF-0001LR-8S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:20:27 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r8RFKPri000427 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:20:25 GMT Original-Received: from userz7021.oracle.com (userz7021.oracle.com [156.151.31.85]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r8RFKO0X005033 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:20:24 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt108.oracle.com (abhmt108.oracle.com [141.146.116.60]) by userz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r8RFKO8V005016; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:20:24 GMT In-Reply-To: <4a36c97d-b279-4b3d-bde1-c392402b57ef@googlegroups.com> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6680.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93667 Archived-At: > I think I'll start with the suggestion to start > with emacs -Q and gradually enlarge my init file. Don't do it gradually. Do it by bisecting recursively, i.e., In chunks that get increasingly smaller (exponentially). This is very quick. Again, `comment-region' is your friend.