Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!chinet!pdg
From: pdg@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Guthrie)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Better error handling for .emacs
Message-ID: <8458@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 15 May 89 06:05:44 GMT
References: <822@pcsbst.UUCP>
Reply-To: pdg@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Guthrie)
Organization: The League of Crafty Hackers
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In article <822@pcsbst.UUCP> jkh@pcsbst.UUCP (jkh) writes:
>Question: Is there some way to get more information than "Error in init file"
>when emacs doesn't like your .emacs file?

This is what I use:

(setq debug-on-error t)

; Rest of .emacs goes here

(setq debug-on error nil)

-- 
Paul Guthrie
chinet!nsacray!paul