Re: The `^L' appeared in built-in help.

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 11:10 AM Emanuel Berg via Users list for the
GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Hongyi Zhao wrote:
>
> >>> the results will be the same as yours. If I run `emacs',
> >>> the problem reported here will happen. So the problem is
> >>> triggered by some configurations in my
> >>> `~/.emacs.d/init.el'. But I still can't find out the
> >>> specific configuration which caused the problem.
> >>
> >> Do binary search :)
> >>
> >
> > The init file is a pure ASCII file, so why do you suggest
> > this trick here?
>
> Binary search is a search algorithm and you can apply it,
> manually, to your own Elisp to find an error if you have no
> clue where it is. It doesn't take a lot of iterations to find
> the error, usually.

I misunderstood your meaning previously. Thank you for your
clarification. You're talking about the technique as described on
<https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Binary_search>.

Regards
-- 
Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Vocational University of Technology and Engineering
No. 473, Quannan West Street, Xindu District, Xingtai, Hebei province