Re: help with modifying a bit of code in .emacs

["William Henney" <whenney@gmail.com>]

Hi Graham

On Dec 13, 2007 1:11 PM, Graham Smith <myotisone@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been using the set up provided by John Wiegley on a Mac and have
> tried to to use it with Emacs32 wbut with some problems as the
> custom-set-variables command seemed to badly interact with the Emacs32w
> custom-set-variables.
>

I have no specific help to offer, but you should be able to narrow
down the problem further by turning on debugging of your init file.
Starting from a unix command line, this would be "emacs --debug-init
&", but I have no idea whether this would work on windows. If you
can't work out how to do this on windows, you could use a more
roundabout method as follows:

1. temporarily remove/comment the problematic code from your .emacs
and put it in a separate file, say "bad-code.el"
2. restart emacs
3. turn on debugging with
   M-x set-variable RET debug-on-error RET t RET
4. evaluate the problematic code by doing
   M-x load-file RET path/to/bad-code.el RET

In principle, either of these methods should give you a lisp backtrace
indicating exactly what the offending command is. Even if you don't
understand the backtrace, it might help someone else to diagnose your
problem.

Cheers

Will


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  Dr William Henney, Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica,
  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Morelia