Re: Can I ask a Simple question?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 03.10.2006 um 13:00 schrieb neil:

> im guessing that some small detail could have been wrong.

The small detail is PK – this word is used somewhere in your .emacs  
files.

If you copy the contents of the *Backtrace* buffer into the *scratch*  
buffer you can then find a long and not clipped line that might  
contain a comment like:

        ; Reading at buffer position 12345

Now you can open the faulty ELisp file and execute:

        M-x goto-char RET 12345 RET

and the cursor is at the position where the error happens. Well,  
mostly. Sometimes, often, this position is at the end of a large if  
or progn clause ...

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Greetings

  Pete

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