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bug#54550: Debugging elisp files
From: |
Robert Pluim |
Subject: |
bug#54550: Debugging elisp files |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Mar 2022 09:30:34 +0100 |
>>>>> On Thu, 24 Mar 2022 18:19:13 +0000, goncholden via "Bug reports for GNU
>>>>> Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> said:
>> I am debugging a large file because of the following error,
>> Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading
‘/home/goncho/.emacs’:
>> Invalid read syntax: )
One way to work with this is to put point at the beginning of .emacs
and eval
(while t (forward-sexp))
That will error and tell you at what character position itʼs failing.
>> In texinfo, there exists the "@ignore" and "@end ignore" tags that
>> comment out sections of texinfo code. This makes it much easier to
>> debug texinfo files, because one does not have to constantly comment
>> every line, and with the advantage that one can leave the file almost
>> intact.
You can wrap blocks of code in (when nil) to achieve the same.
Robert
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