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debugging load failure
From: |
Ross Boylan |
Subject: |
debugging load failure |
Date: |
Sat, 14 Sep 2013 13:00:12 -0700 |
I am new to debugging elisp.
My .emacs file includes (load "ess-site"). This used to work, but no
longer seems effective--there is no sign that ESS has been loaded.
There is also no error, and nothing in *Messages* indicating a problem.
Other code in .emacs is being evaluated.
emacs --debug-init doesn't help (that is, emacs launches the same way it
does without the option), presumably because there is no error.
I would like to trace through and see what's going on.
With the cursor inside (load "ess-site") M-x edebug-eval-top-level-form
starts the debugger. I then hit "i", which I think is the way to step
into the lower level evaluations.
This asks for a C source file (apparently the load is defined internally
in C) which a) is not on my system; b) doesn't seem as if it would be
meaningful to an elisp debugger; and c) is not likely to be where the
problem lies. I really want to see the code in ess-site. At any rate,
I can't get past this step.
How can I get my hands on something to debug?
I do have the ess-site.el, and tried putting (edebug) inside of it. I
think this brought up the regular debugger (since it was not edebug
instrumented), but it didn't show me where I was in the source and I
couldn't do anything useful. (It also show the load command is loading
the file). Probably a more experienced person could do something
useful, but I could use some help. I think I want to use edebug not
debug since the former is friendlier.
Running emacs 23.4.1 on Debian GNU/Linux (wheezy).
Thanks.
Ross Boylan
P.S. I would appreciate a cc on the response.
- debugging load failure,
Ross Boylan <=