Re: finding the hork point in ~/.emacs: timerp

[ken]

On 8/26/20 6:38 PM, ken wrote:
> On 8/26/20 4:12 PM, Stefan Kangas wrote:
>> ken <gebser@mousecar.com> writes:
>>
>>> In another thread I spoke too soon about my ~/.emacs fully working.  A
>>> lot of it isn't being executed.  This, to my understanding, means that
>>> some code is no longer working (since my recent emacs upgrade).  Is
>>> there some really good method or log file or something else which would
>>> help finding where the hork point is?
>> Try using:
>>
>> emacs --debug-init
> Thanks much, Yuan and Stefan.
>
> Okay, I ran that.  Emacs comes up.  Then what do I look at...?  What
> file or buffer...? or output?  I don't see anything at all diagnostic.

Uncle Web gave me an answer: it's a buffer emacs calls *Messages*. 

The first errors in it:

Loading emacs-lisp/cl-generic...done
Loading minibuffer...
Error during redisplay: (clear-minibuffer-message) signaled
(void-function timerp)
Loading minibuffer...done
Error during redisplay: (clear-minibuffer-message) signaled
(void-function timerp)
Loading frame...
Error during redisplay: (clear-minibuffer-message) signaled
(void-function timerp)
Loading frame...done
Error during redisplay: (clear-minibuffer-message) signaled
(void-function timerp)
Loading startup...
Error during redisplay: (clear-minibuffer-message) signaled
(void-function timerp)
Loading startup...done
Error during redisplay: (clear-minibuffer-message) signaled
(void-function timerp)
Loading term/tty-colors...
Error during redisplay: (clear-minibuffer-message) signaled
(void-function timerp)
Loading term/tty-colors...done
Error during redisplay: (clear-minibuffer-message) signaled
(void-function timerp)
Loading font-core...
Error during redisplay: (clear-minibuffer-message) signaled
(void-function timerp)
Loading font-core...done
Error during redisplay: (clear-minibuffer-message) signaled
(void-function timerp)
Loading facemenu...
Error during redisplay: (clear-minibuffer-message) signaled
(void-function timerp)
Loading facemenu...done
Error during redisplay: (clear-minibuffer-message) signaled
(void-function timerp)
Loading emacs-lisp/syntax...
Error during redisplay: (clear-minibuffer-message) signaled
(void-function timerp)
Loading emacs-lisp/syntax...done
Error during redisplay: (clear-minibuffer-message) signaled
(void-function timerp)
Loading font-lock...
Error during redisplay: (clear-minibuffer-message) signaled
(void-function timerp)
Loading font-lock...done
Error during redisplay: (clear-minibuffer-message) signaled
(void-function timerp)
Loading jit-lock...
Error during redisplay: (clear-minibuffer-message) signaled
(void-function timerp)
Loading jit-lock...done
Error during redisplay: (clear-minibuffer-message) signaled
(void-function timerp)
Loading mouse...
Error during redisplay: (clear-minibuffer-message) signaled
(void-function timerp)
Loading mouse...done
Error during redisplay: (clear-minibuffer-message) signaled
(void-function timerp)
Loading scroll-bar...
Error during redisplay: (clear-minibuffer-message) signaled
(void-function timerp)
Loading scroll-bar...done
Error during redisplay: (clear-minibuffer-message) signaled
(void-function timerp)
Loading select...
Error during redisplay: (clear-minibuffer-message) signaled
(void-function timerp)
Loading select...done
Error during redisplay: (clear-minibuffer-message) signaled
(void-function timerp)
Loading emacs-lisp/timer...done
Loading isearch...done

There's no such text in any of my code, no "timerp" or "timer".  I have
no idea where to look for the source of these errors. 

Anyone know about this?