From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: removing white space highlight Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 17:05:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <22213.39605.290751.139619@mail.eng.it> <20160218103019.GA5354@tuxteam.de> <20160218131722.GA10679@tuxteam.de> <20160218141544.GB11934@tuxteam.de> <87vb5lzgx3.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455843970 8497 80.91.229.3 (19 Feb 2016 01:06:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 01:06:10 +0000 (UTC) To: Emanuel Berg , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 19 02:05:58 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1aWZW6-0000Td-Sm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 02:05:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47088 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWZW2-0000ZO-L0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2016 20:05:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54269) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWZVr-0000Z1-Gg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2016 20:05:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWZVo-0003f2-8n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2016 20:05:39 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:29055) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aWZVn-0003ej-QA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2016 20:05:35 -0500 Original-Received: from aserv0021.oracle.com (aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id u1J15XdL023214 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 19 Feb 2016 01:05:34 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0122.oracle.com (aserv0122.oracle.com [141.146.126.236]) by aserv0021.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u1J15X34007638 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Fri, 19 Feb 2016 01:05:33 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0017.oracle.com (abhmp0017.oracle.com [141.146.116.23]) by aserv0122.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u1J15OBx002431; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 01:05:29 GMT In-Reply-To: <87vb5lzgx3.fsf@debian.uxu> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109217 Archived-At: > 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. >=20 > 2. Then proceed to comment out half of your > initialization code. >=20 > 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.