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In article <PSHANNON.93Jan20220406@iapetus.cv.nrao.edu>
pshannon@iapetus.cv.nrao.edu (Paul Shannon) writes:

> I just made a change to my .emacs file.  When I restart, I learn
> that there's an  
> 
>      "Error in init file"
> 
> Is there some way I can trace the execution of my .emacs so I can
> find out what I did wrong?   Will this allow me to trace into files
> loaded from .emacs?

Unfortunately debugging .emacs is not very intuitive. Here is what I
do: 

The code in my .emacs is embedded in a let contruct which sets
debug-on-error to t:

  (let ((debug-on-error t))

    ;; startup code

    )

This way Emacs doesn't behave different on error in the .emacs when
starting up (i.e. only the non-descriptive message "Error in init
file" appears), but I can start Emacs with the -q switch ("Do not load
your Emacs init file `~/.emacs'"), then do a (load-file ".emacs").

When an error occurs, the usual debugger window appears.


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Juergen Nickelsen