From: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>,
Jeremiah Dodds <jeremiah.dodds@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Better startup error handling
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:42:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871un7j21r.fsf@engster.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvsjfndh49.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:16:00 -0400")
Stefan Monnier writes:
>>> The way I see it, we should ideally be able to load the .emacs in such
>>> a way that an error doesn't prevent the rest of the file from being
>>> loaded, and the error should be clearly signaled to the user with some
>>> kind of line-number information.
>> Yes. This presumably means some sort of evaluator hook to execute some
>> code between each toplevel form, or wrap each top-level form in a
>> condition-case -- reader macros would I think handle it, but elisp
>> doesn't have those.
>
> Another way to do it is to not use `load' but to find-file .emacs and
> then eval-region chunk by chunk.
FWIW, I've written this for creating profiles of the init file:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ProfileDotEmacs
-David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-28 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-25 0:24 proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y Steve Yegge
2012-04-25 4:45 ` Karl Fogel
2012-04-25 6:28 ` Miles Bader
2012-04-25 6:34 ` Miles Bader
2012-04-25 13:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-05-01 22:01 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-04-25 7:53 ` Helmut Eller
2012-04-25 8:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-25 14:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-25 14:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-25 15:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-25 16:41 ` Miles Bader
2012-04-25 16:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-04-25 16:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-04-26 21:20 ` Steve Yegge
2012-04-26 22:11 ` Miles Bader
2012-04-26 23:52 ` Steve Yegge
2012-04-27 0:29 ` Miles Bader
2012-04-27 3:20 ` Jeremiah Dodds
2012-04-27 3:41 ` Miles Bader
2012-04-27 3:59 ` Jeremiah Dodds
2012-04-27 4:24 ` Miles Bader
2012-04-27 8:49 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2012-04-27 14:23 ` Nix
2012-04-28 2:07 ` Better startup error handling (was: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y) Stefan Monnier
2012-04-28 12:04 ` Better startup error handling Nix
2012-04-28 15:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-28 15:42 ` David Engster [this message]
2012-04-28 15:55 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-28 19:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-28 17:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-04-30 8:43 ` Christian Lynbech
2012-04-30 9:18 ` chad
2012-04-27 16:35 ` proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y Richard Stallman
2012-04-27 1:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-27 1:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-04-27 16:35 ` Richard Stallman
2012-04-28 11:13 ` Eli Barzilay
2012-04-28 17:02 ` Richard Stallman
2012-04-28 19:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-28 21:56 ` Eli Barzilay
2012-06-03 3:45 ` Richard Stallman
2012-04-27 4:17 ` Steve Yegge
2012-04-27 6:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-27 19:05 ` Steve Yegge
2012-04-27 21:24 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-28 4:43 ` Steve Yegge
2012-04-28 6:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-04-29 21:26 ` Odd formatting (was: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y) Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-04-30 7:48 ` Odd formatting Steinar Bang
2012-04-30 10:14 ` Antoine Levitt
2012-04-30 13:27 ` Nix
2012-04-28 2:02 ` proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y Stefan Monnier
2012-04-25 14:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-04-29 17:00 ` Andreas Röhler
2012-04-29 17:08 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-29 17:29 ` Andreas Röhler
2012-04-29 18:01 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-29 19:51 ` PJ Weisberg
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