Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!lfk From: lfk@mbio.med.upenn.edu (Lee Kolakowski) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: Better error handling for .emacs Message-ID: Date: 14 May 89 14:41:22 GMT References: <822@pcsbst.UUCP> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Organization: University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Chemistry Lines: 31 In-reply-to: jkh@pcsbst.UUCP's message of 12 May 89 15:30:38 GMT 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? What I do is while still in emacs "M-x set-variable" "debug-on-error" "1" Then "M-x load-file" "~/.emacs" Then the debugging window will have a trace of the errors including what is wrong. -- Frank Kolakowski ===================================================================== |lfk@mbio.med.upenn.edu || Lee F. Kolakowski | |kolakowski@mscf.med.upenn. || Univ. of Penna. | |c/o jes@eniac.seas.upenn.edu || Dept of Chemistry | |kolakowski@c.chem.upenn.edu || 231 South 34th St. | |bcooperman.kolakowski@bionet-20.arpa || Phila, PA 19104 | |AT&T: 1-215-898-2927 ||--------------------------| |#include || One-Liner Here! | =====================================================================