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From: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: kmartino@pobox.com, Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>,
	emacs-orgmode@gnu.org,
	Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Re: One org file, multiple exports, is it possible?
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 07:51:04 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C7B8432C-65A2-4EE7-8A78-F890473A3D2C@tsdye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9690.1274806335@alphaville.usa.hp.com>

Thanks Nick,

I appreciate your frequent servings of sane advice.  I don't think I  
have a batch mode reproducer in me, but bisection makes a lot of sense  
and the organization of the config files is somewhat logical so I do  
have a de facto bisection at hand.

All the best,
Tom

On May 25, 2010, at 6:52 AM, Nick Dokos wrote:

> Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Bernt,
>>
>> So, "broken custom settings" appear to be the cause of the unexpected
>> behavior.  Two questions:
>>
>> 1) Do programmers have a name for this situation, where custom
>> settings seemed to work perfectly for a long time but then failed
>> noticeably with the introduction of new, correct code into  
>> the .emacs?
>>
>
> I don't think so.
>
>> 2) Is there a useful strategy for finding the minimal .emacs that
>> illustrates the failure?  I might have 100 customizations in the
>> various starter kit configuration files.  If combinations of
>> customizations are a possibility, I'm looking at quite a bit of  
>> random
>> experimentation without some kind of strategy.
>>
>
> Bisection is about the only reasonable strategy, short of oracular
> guesswork. I have a single .emacs that's (mostly) a sequence of
> (conditional) loads/requires of individual package config files. I  
> just
> comment out the whole thing, verify correct operation, and then
> uncomment out the first/second half and try again. With 100  
> packages, 7
> cycles will get you down to a single package and then you just do the
> same thing within the package config file. Given a reproducer that you
> can run in batch mode, this goes fairly quickly.
>
> HTH,
> Nick

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-25 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-22 23:46 One org file, multiple exports, is it possible? Karl Martino
2010-05-23  0:47 ` Karl Martino
2010-05-23  4:59 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-23 12:22   ` Karl Martino
2010-05-23 15:58     ` Eric Schulte
2010-05-23 16:17     ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-23 16:31       ` Karl Martino
2010-05-23 18:49         ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-05-23 20:57           ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-23 22:01             ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-05-24  5:20               ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-24 16:36                 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-05-25  3:38                 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-05-25  3:50                   ` Bernt Hansen
2010-05-25 16:20                     ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-05-25 16:52                       ` Nick Dokos
2010-05-25 17:51                         ` Thomas S. Dye [this message]
2010-05-28  3:40                         ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-05-25 17:26                       ` Mark Elston
2010-05-25 17:53                         ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-05-26 18:42                     ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-05-26 21:37                       ` Nick Dokos
2010-05-26 22:28                         ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-05-27  1:40                           ` Nick Dokos

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