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From: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Debugging $HOME/.emacs?
Keywords: GNU Version 17.62.9
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Date: 31 Aug 88 02:52:59 GMT
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In article <2186@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> regoli@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (michael regoli) writes:
>Is there a way to debug an error in a fairly large (~60 line)
>$HOME/.emacs file?  perhaps a way to get emacs to echo back what it
>has read, line-by-line, and report where it gets hung?  how about
>shoving it through an interpreter?

try this: 

	(setq debug-on-error t)
	(load-file "~/.emacs")
	... and away you go into the land of the emacs-debugger


>our emacs version is gnu 17.62.9 (jan '87).  can someone tell me what
>the latest version is?  

We are running 18.51 here.  I don't think any newer versions have been
announced yet.

>is it time for us to update?

It was 'that time' about a year and a half ago. ;-)

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