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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: removing white space highlight
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 17:05:18 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f5d61f74-94b2-43db-8bbc-086311fd9eb4@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vb5lzgx3.fsf@debian.uxu>

> You can do the "binary search". It is a pretty name
> for a sluggish tho capable method.

Nope.  Not sluggish at all.  Blind, maybe (but nothing prevents
one from applying some thought, as well).  But not sluggish.

It can seem silly or sluggish at first, but ... well, it's
exponential, so keep with it...

There is little in our Universe that is less sluggish, at the
end of the day, than exponential behavior.

> 1. First do 'emacs -Q'. If this solves the problem,
>    the problem is in a configuration/extension file.
> 
> 2. Then proceed to comment out half of your
>    initialization code.
> 
> 3. If this solves the problem, you know where the
>    problem is. If this doesn't solve the problem, you
>    know where the problem is. With the newfound
>    "problem chunk of code", redo steps 2-3 until you
>    have found the misconfiguration.

Yup.  Good.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-19  1:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-18 10:06 removing white space highlight Luca Ferrari
2016-02-18 10:19 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2016-02-18 10:54   ` Luca Ferrari
2016-02-18 10:30     ` tomas
2016-02-18 13:34       ` Luca Ferrari
2016-02-18 13:17         ` tomas
2016-02-18 14:37           ` Luca Ferrari
2016-02-18 14:15             ` tomas
2016-02-18 16:08               ` Luca Ferrari
2016-02-19  0:23                 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-19  1:05                   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-02-19 16:02                   ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-19 20:43                     ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-19 20:50                       ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-20  0:30                         ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-20 19:08 ` Bob Proulx
2016-02-21  0:32   ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-21  1:34     ` Bob Proulx
2016-02-21  1:48       ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-21  3:27         ` Robert Thorpe
2016-02-21  3:31           ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-21  5:00             ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-21  6:10               ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-21 11:48             ` tomas
2016-02-21 17:13               ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-23  0:33                 ` Robert Thorpe
2016-02-23  0:41                   ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-24  0:44                     ` Robert Thorpe
2016-02-24  1:41                       ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-24 20:38                         ` Robert Thorpe
2016-02-25  0:10                           ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-25  8:47                             ` Luca Ferrari
2016-02-25  9:29                               ` Christian Kruse
2016-02-25 19:58                             ` Robert Thorpe
2016-02-25 20:10                               ` vc-region-history promotion (was: removing white space highlight) Stefan Monnier
2016-02-25 22:15                               ` removing white space highlight Emanuel Berg
2016-02-25 22:41                                 ` Robert Thorpe
2016-02-26  0:02                                   ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-26  2:58                                     ` Robert Thorpe
2016-02-26  3:29                                       ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-26  6:08                                         ` Bob Proulx
2016-02-26 19:48                                           ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-27 20:54                                         ` Robert Thorpe
2016-02-28  2:43                                           ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-28 18:09                                             ` Robert Thorpe
2016-02-29  0:52                                               ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-29  2:43                                                 ` Robert Thorpe
2016-02-22 14:05   ` Luca Ferrari
2016-02-23  0:13     ` Emanuel Berg
2016-02-23  0:34     ` Robert Thorpe

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