Re: finding the hork point in ~/.emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:40:54 -0400
> 
> > What additional mode is that?  How do you turn it on?
> 
> It's a super-old package, still in quite a bit of use, called
> html-helper-mode.  I've come to love it a lot, way more than emacs'
> native html editor.  I've customized it quite a bit over the years
> also.  Today I went through the whole thing (over 2600 lines for your
> carpal tunnel pleasure) and tested every function and definition etc.,
> and everything worked.  And when I got to the last line, it was loaded,
> So I opened a test.html file, used it in all kinds of ways, and
> everything worked fine.  So I'm fairly certain that it's some other code
> before that's invoked which is bringing about the error.
> 
> It's turned on with this in my ~/.emacs:
> 
> (autoload 'html-helper-mode "html-helper-mode" "Yay HTML" t)

So if you start Emacs without that line, and then evaluate that line
via "M-:", everything works as expected with that mode?  But if that
line is present in your .emacs, something doesn't work well, is that
right?  If so, what exactly doesn't work in the latter case?