Re: Emacs crashes when I try to quit

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 10.4.2012 um 10:26 schrieb Giant Y:

> I encountered a problem that Emacs crashes when I try to exit the program.
> Any of C-x C-c, File -> Quit, and using the mouse to close the program
> leads to the problem.

You can put

        (setq debug-on-error t)

into your init file to get possibly a *Backtrace* buffer which might explain 
the cause. Restart GNU Emacs after this change!

You can investigate further the value of the variables site-run-file and 
user-init-file. Then determine which files in the file system are actually 
used. Now you can temporarily rename site-run-file and see whether something 
has changed. If yes, than the site-run-file is the culprit. If not, then undo 
the renaming and now rename your own init file and test again. If this has 
changed the behaviour, then in your init some statement causes the problem. Now 
you can undo the renaming and try bi-secting your init file to find the 
culpable statement. Bi-secting means to comment one half and see whether the 
fault has. If it has gone, then it is in the commented half. You can undo the 
commenting and comment only one half of what was commented before. When the 
error is gone, then it's in the commented region. Uncomment and then comment 
one half of what was commented previously. New test. Iterate further.
If the error was not gone with the first commenting, then it is in the second 
not commented half. So undo the first commenting and comment the first half of 
the second half, i.e., the third quarter of your init file. Error gone? Then 
it's in the commented region, otherwise it is in the uncommented quarter. 
Further iterate.

In the end you'll find the statement that cause the problem.

--
Greetings

  Pete

$ sumascii BILL GATES
  B   I   L   L   G   A   T   E   S 
 66+ 73+ 76+ 76+ 71+ 65+ 84+ 69+ 83 = 663

 and add 3 because he's Bill Gates the third.