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>>>>> On 22 Jan 1993 19:16:29 GMT, nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de (Juergen Nickelsen) said:

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

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

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

JN>     ;; startup code

JN>     )

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

It is possible to make that error message a little more descriptive
with the following patch on startup.el:

*** ed:[orig.lisp]startup.el
--- ed:[new.lisp]startup.el
**************
*** 124,130
  			 ;; Don't you dare turn this off for anyone
  			 ;; except yourself.
  			 (load "default" t t)))))
!       (error (message "Error in init file")))
      (if (get-buffer "*scratch*")
  	(save-excursion
  	  (set-buffer "*scratch*")
--- 124,130 -----
  			 ;; Don't you dare turn this off for anyone
  			 ;; except yourself.
  			 (load "default" t t)))))
!       (error (message (format "Error in init file: %s" error))))
      (if (get-buffer "*scratch*")
  	(save-excursion
  	  (set-buffer "*scratch*")


The message can be a little cryptic, but it helps to get the message:
"Error in init file: (void-variable foo)"

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