r.f.e. emacs tutorial

[Jude DaShiell]

In some future version of emacs would it be possible to include a session
on the emacs debugger for when .emacs and similar files get messed up how
to use emacs --debug to locate problems and repair those problems?


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[Emanuel Berg]

... what is "r.f.e.", Radio Free Europe?

Jude DaShiell wrote:

> on the emacs debugger for when .emacs and similar
> files get messed up how to use emacs --debug to
> locate problems and repair those problems?

There seems to be no such option as --debug according
to the man page emacs(1) (GNU Emacs 26.1,
2007 April 13 - hm ... that old a man page?)

OTOH, Emacs doesn't report an error on
$ emacs --debug # maybe because it is a prefix of
--debug-init, as e.g. --xyz does report
'Unknown option'.

(If indeed a prefix thing, it should be dropped IMO.
Error prone and doesn't look right - by
definition, even.)

Anyway, keeping up with the man page, it says:

--debug-init
Enable Emacs Lisp debugger during the process‐
ing of the user init file ~/.emacs. This is
useful for debugging problems in the init file.

Here,

(info "(emacs) Initial Options")

it says

--debug-init’
Enable the Emacs Lisp debugger for errors in the init file. *Note
Entering the Debugger on an Error: (elisp)Error Debugging.

which is a reference to

(info "(elisp) Error Debugging")

where

(how-many "init") ; 4

HIH :)

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[Jude DaShiell]

In internet context request for enhancement similar to R.F.C. request
for comments.

On Mon, 24 Aug 2020, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text
editor wrote:

> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 13:05:55
> From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
> <help-gn...@gnu.org>
> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg <moase...@zoho.eu>
> To: help-gn...@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: r.f.e. emacs tutorial

>
> ... what is "r.f.e.", Radio Free Europe?
>
> Jude DaShiell wrote:
>
> > on the emacs debugger for when .emacs and similar
> > files get messed up how to use emacs --debug to
> > locate problems and repair those problems?
>
> There seems to be no such option as --debug according
> to the man page emacs(1) (GNU Emacs 26.1,
> 2007 April 13 - hm ... that old a man page?)
>
> OTOH, Emacs doesn't report an error on
> $ emacs --debug # maybe because it is a prefix of
> --debug-init, as e.g. --xyz does report
> 'Unknown option'.
>
> (If indeed a prefix thing, it should be dropped IMO.
> Error prone and doesn't look right - by
> definition, even.)
>
> Anyway, keeping up with the man page, it says:
>
> --debug-init

> Enable Emacs Lisp debugger during the process?

> ing of the user init file ~/.emacs. This is
> useful for debugging problems in the init file.
>
> Here,
>
> (info "(emacs) Initial Options")
>
> it says
>

> --debug-init?

[Steve G]

You must be kindding right? When emacs starts up you can click on the
tutorial link with the cursor and RET.