Re: Info file in emacs.gives Lisp error: (beginning-of-buffer) (end-of-buffer)

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2020 at 12:01 PM
> From: "Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor" 
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Info file in emacs.gives Lisp error: (beginning-of-buffer) 
> (end-of-buffer)
>
> Christopher Dimech wrote:
>
> > What usually happens in that I make a mistake in my emacs
> > init file and emacs complains. If after loading emacs,
> > I call (setq debug-on-error t), would the debug on the
> > loading error work? Or would I need ho have (setq
> > debug-on-error t) before emacs is called.
>
> I'm not following, sorry...

Suppose I run the command "emacs" on a terminal and there is a problem in my 
init file.

If I want to debug the error, could I enable (setq debug-on-error t) from emacs.
Or would I have to include (setq debug-on-error t) in my init file before 
calling
"emacs" on the terminal?


> Correct the mistake without involving the debugger is what
> I would do, anyway.

Or course, if one can.

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