From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: finding the hork point in ~/.emacs Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 07:08:36 +0300 Message-ID: <837dtk3f3v.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36464"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 27 06:09:09 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kB9Do-0009Pl-LX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2020 06:09:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59686 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kB9Dn-0000j9-OH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2020 00:09:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50890) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kB9DV-0000ip-UR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2020 00:08:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44847) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kB9DV-0005kk-M4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2020 00:08:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2264 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kB9DV-0007gg-2I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2020 00:08:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from ken on Wed, 26 Aug 2020 18:38:19 -0400) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:123795 Archived-At: > From: ken > Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 18:38:19 -0400 > > On 8/26/20 4:12 PM, Stefan Kangas wrote: > > ken writes: > > > >> In another thread I spoke too soon about my ~/.emacs fully working.  A > >> lot of it isn't being executed.  This, to my understanding, means that > >> some code is no longer working (since my recent emacs upgrade).  Is > >> there some really good method or log file or something else which would > >> help finding where the hork point is? > > Try using: > > > > emacs --debug-init > Thanks much, Yuan and Stefan. > > Okay, I ran that.  Emacs comes up.  Then what do I look at...?  What > file or buffer...? or output?  I don't see anything at all diagnostic. If Emacs starts normally with --debug-init, then the problem is not that something in your init file errors out. So you need to tell more about the problems you see: what exactly leads you to believe that something in the init file is not working?