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Re: how to exit "early" from eg .emacs?
From: |
David Combs |
Subject: |
Re: how to exit "early" from eg .emacs? |
Date: |
Sat, 15 Jan 2005 22:46:28 +0000 (UTC) |
In article <wk3bx27mft.fsf@fgeorges.org>, drkm <usenet@fgeorges.org> wrote:
>"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> ... and eventually discover just where in .emacs my problem-code is.
>
>> Not exactly what you wanted, but perhaps a solution after all: Invoke
>> Emacs with the -q switch, then visit your .emacs, and manually
>> evaluate its contents, either with eval-region or with "C-x C-e" (for
>> a single expression). After each evaluation, see whether the
>> offending problem appears, and draw the conclusions as appropriate.
>
> And with `C-x (', `C-M-f', `C-x )' and `C-x e', you just have to
>press `e e e e e e ...' to discover the sexp where is the problem.
>
>--drkm
>> ... and eventually discover just where in .emacs my problem-code is.
| Not exactly what you wanted, but perhaps a solution after all: Invoke
| Emacs with the -q switch, then visit your .emacs, and manually
| evaluate its contents, either with eval-region or with "C-x C-e" (for
| a single expression). After each evaluation, see whether the
| offending problem appears, and draw the conclusions as appropriate.
|
| Does this work?
Looks like it should -- I'll sure give it a try!
And that e e e e thing -- what, he's assigning that macro
to the e-key? (Otherwise you'd have to hit C-x e each time?
Or am I simply confused?)
| ESC C-f runs the command forward-sexp
| which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `emacs-lisp/lisp'.
| (forward-sexp &optional ARG)
|
| Move forward across one balanced expression (sexp).
| With ARG, do it that many times. Negative arg -N means
| move backward across N balanced expressions.
Oh, that's cool!
Thanks to both,
David