Re: Debugging .emacs file

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>]

SteveFKI wrote:
> I am new to EMACS, and have created my own .emacs file (because I want to
> learn how to do it from scratch). When I open a C file I get the message
> "File mode specification error (wrong-type-argument : listp 3).
> 
> I would like to be able to debug my .emacs file, and see what is going on,
> but if I start EMACS with emacs -debug-init test.c I don't get any debug
> info. (This is obviosuly not the right thing to do).

You don't get a *Backtrace* buffer because the error does not occur 
while your .emacs file is loaded, it occurs later (due to something in
your .emacs file).

Try starting Emacs like this:

emacs --eval '(setq debug-on-error t)' test.c

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA