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How to navigate stack frames in Emacs debugger?
I'm trying to debug the infamous Unrecognized entry in undo list undo-tree-canary, and after having Emacs debugger triggered on error, I want to move back and forth between stack frames and to examine ...
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How to file bug report about frozen emacs
Here what I have
MacOS
Emacs started with $(which emacs) --daemon
using emacs mostly in terminal with alias emacs='emacsclient -nw'
and then emacs ~/foo.txt to edit files
So right now my emacs ...
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How to debug frequent emacs feezes
I have a complex Emacs setup. I love it, except for that fact that it freezes a couple of times a day for me. I have a few suspicion:
I use you-complete-me for auto-completion in c++ and it may be ...
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Is it possible to edebug a lambda returned by a function?
For example,
(defun create-function (number)
`(lambda () (* ,number ,number)))
(defalias 'square-two (create-function 2) "adds two")
(square-two)
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Is there an ELISP decompiler?
I'm thinking of writing one so that when I get those horrible tracebacks from bytecode files, I can better see where I was at.
Is there one already?
Are there any other tools for showing an error ...
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Unable to load bookmarks list on emacs master
Whenever I try to execute bookmark-bmenu-list (which loads the bookmarks file), I get the following error: bmkp-multi-sort: Symbol’s function definition is void: bmkp-info-cp.
I am running on emacs ...
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Debug pytests in emacs
I try to debug my pytest-cases like this:
import pytest
def test_something()
...
...
pytest.set_trace()
Then, i execute the tests by running elpy-test. The test starts to
run and stops ...
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How to force `condition-case` to activate the debugger
Often times I need to debug code wrapped in the BODYFORM of condition-case; however, the debugger is suppressed even though I have debug-on-error set to t. The doc-string states that we can add debug ...
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Debugging — debugger-mode — how to highlight the culprit
Let us take an example such as (max 0 (/ 8 0)) -- the problem is the argument to / -- i.e., DIVISORS cannot be 0. The debugging output looks like this:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (arith-error)
/...
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Emacs is hanging on almost every word I type. How to identify the problem?
So, that's it. I am writing a lot of LaTeX, and lately emacs is hanging (becoming unresponsive) on almost every word I type, and I have to press C-g to regain control. It started happening around 4 ...
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Debugging erratic error
The following error appears every other time that a .tex file is opened:
Wrong number of arguments, setq, 3
Enabling toggle-debug-on-error gives this backtrace.
How to go about debugging this? I've ...
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how to start daemon with `--debug-init` or equivalent debugger?
summary
problem
I'm trying to debug a problem that involves an Emacs config and daemon startup. But when I run
emacs --daemon --debug-init
from a console, the spew ends with
Loading desktop from /...
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Autocompletion of a variable name while Python debugging
Suppose I want to debug Python script in Emacs. M-x pdb run pdb like this pdb script name.py. Next I'd like to examine a variable. I type p and first letters of a variable name, then press Tab and ...
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set breakpoint while in debugger?
Is it possible to set a breakpoint on an arbitrary line while already established in browser()? As a use-case: if I debug(myfunc) and while in Browse[2]> ... I realize that I need to jump forward ...
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Stack reflection in Emacs Lisp?
Are there reflection methods available in elisp to examine the stack without invoking the debugger?
For example:
Get the calling/callee function
Get the function call stack
Get the (longer) nested ...
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Signaling a breakpoint in Emacs Lisp
Many languages have a mechanism to signal an attached debugger to pause or break. For example in JavaScript this is done using the debugger keyword. In others like C# or Visual Basic the signal is ...
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Debug org-mode link to PDF displayed with PDF-Tools
Emacs 24.5 on openSuse Tumbleweed. *.org file with a link to a pdf:
[[.\somefile.pdf::2][myfile p 2]]
I'm using the PDF Tools to display a PDF in Emacs. What I expect is that page 2 of the PDF will ...
