From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Debugging Emacs Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 20:15:16 +0200 Message-ID: <83two7qpfv.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87r3jbicg0.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83wpt3qq7b.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448648164 22279 80.91.229.3 (27 Nov 2015 18:16:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 18:16:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 27 19:15:40 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1a2NYX-0006Uk-7Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 19:15:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58086 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2NYZ-0005Xs-Vg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 13:15:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58823) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2NYT-0005Xm-Ue for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 13:15:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2NYQ-0007FU-O3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 13:15:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:57658) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a2NYQ-0007FP-Fb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 13:15:30 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NYH00900IZDDD00@mtaout29.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 20:15:00 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NYH006SCK10J850@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Fri, 27 Nov 2015 20:15:00 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <83wpt3qq7b.fsf@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:195405 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 19:58:48 +0200 > From: Eli Zaretskii > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > I suggest that you read etc/DEBUG, if you didn't already, and > suggest changes to that file where you think it leaves something > important uncovered. More specifically, how about a preamble section at the beginning of etc/DEBUG, named something like "If you are new to debugging Emacs", and describing the preliminaries you think are important? You can refer to later sections instead of repeating what they say. WDYT?