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From: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Debugging advice
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 12:36:47 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8760fvjq68.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.20.1706161800270.20345@panix1.panix.com>


Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> writes:

> I wonder, can something be put in a .emacs file so when emacs
> encounters an initialization error the first problem line number 
> in
> the .emacs file would be stated automatically?

Not necessarily, as something like e.g. a failure to insert a 
closing
parenthesis might not cause an error until the ELisp reader 
reaches the
end of the file. (Yes, this has happened to me.)


Alexis.



      reply	other threads:[~2017-06-17  2:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-16 13:58 Debugging advice Adam Taylor
2017-06-16 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-16 21:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-16 22:02   ` Jude DaShiell
2017-06-17  2:36     ` Alexis [this message]

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