Questions tagged [debugging]
Debugging is a methodical process of finding and reducing the number of bugs, or defects, in a computer program.
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Installing helm-projectile results in “mapc: Lisp nesting exceeds ‘max-lisp-eval-depth’”
Context
Linux Mageia 7.
Emacs 26.3 (vanilla install).
Problem
Reproducible steps:
(Re)Move the content of ~/.emacs.d/elpa.
Start emacs with no configuration (emacs -Q).
In the *scratch* buffer, ...
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how to prevent debugger from taking focus when you evalute lisp expresison with errors
How to reproduce:
write some faulty elisp code
press C-x C-e for eval-last-sexp
the debugger will appear (*backtrace* window) and take the focus of the cursor.
I'd like the focus to remain with ...
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Debugger breaks with Args out of range: “”, 0
When forge is installed on a system with no compiler, I sometimes get this error which breaks magit. I'd like to figure out the traceback for this error so I can add some proper error handling, ...
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How can I make emacsclient use an existing window in the current frame?
I'm on MS Windows, if that makes a difference.
My desired behavior:
There is only one frame visible at any time.
Visiting a file should use an existing window in that frame.
(This is the default ...
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list-packages has become very slow [duplicate]
After upgrading emacs from 24.4 to 26.3 on Windows, everything works fine except for one thing: the list-packages window has become horribly slow. Like, the cursor moves one second after the keystroke....
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Problem with giving inputs to a function programmatically
Some programs take user inputs, for example by calling the interactive function `sunrise-sunset', two arguments are taken from the user. Assume that the inputs are 0.0098 and 51.4934 (these are ...
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Unable to run nov-mode on Windows
disclaimer: I'm still relatively new to Emacs.
When I open an Epub on MS Windows, Emacs opens it using Zip-Archive mode and displays its content (which is normal afaik).
However, when I start nov-...
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Non-hex digit used for Unicode escape error when setting org-latex-classes
When I try to set org-latex-classes with the following code:
(setq org-latex-classes
'(("article"
"
\\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{xeCJK}
%\usepackage[heading]{...
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How to check whether an optional param was input?
I have a command with an optional argument whose value is a number.
I need:
If no input argument then use default value (1000) else use input arg.
(random t)
(defun insert-random-number-at-point(&...
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Scripted bookmark jump not working after startup
Add the following to .spacemacs:
(defun my-bookmark-set (char)
(interactive "cPlease enter a bookmark name to set: ")
(bookmark-set (char-to-string char)))
(defun my-...
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Unsure what to make of the following Emacs prompt to change my init file
Every time I open emacs, I get the following error; emacs is working fine, but not giving me the initial help screen:
An error has occurred while loading `/Users/thorkamphefner/.emacs.d/init.el':
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Impossible to answer y-or-n-p prompt in EXWM if X window is focussed
When a y-or-n-p question (e.g. The file you want to open is very large. Really want to open it?) pops up in the minibuffer while an EXWM buffer is focussed, I have no option to answer the question (...
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How to use edebug on a function
I am trying to debug a problem with the alert.el package using edebug. However, I am unable to step through the alert function.
I expect the debugger to enter the function and allow me to step ...
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Help? - Freeze up to 10 seconds happening on windows when exiting (kill-emacs) when desktop-save-mode and back-button-mode are enabled
I've spent a full working day trying to somehow resolve this, no luck, so I'm turning to this place hoping for help.
Recently I started experiencing freeze of something like up to 10 seconds when ...
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Making resize-mini-windows buffer-local while locally let-bound
Upon striking C-x s (save-some-buffers) or C-x C-c,
it report errorsin mini-buffer
Making resize-mini-windows buffer-local while locally let-bound.
Search the above errors but return no helpful ...
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problem with starting emacs via emacsclient
I have no problems starting Emacs from a terminal, while if I start it from the desktop (I have a desktop file containing emacsclient -ca '') Emacs starts with a putt-ugly font (see below a screenshot)...
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How can I modify zone's putz-with-case to print random letters instead?
(I will bold the actual questions.)
So here is an old version of the offical zone code that randomly chooses letters and randomly makes them uppercase or lowercase. I did not modify this, and it ...
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I see “Unnecessary call to ‘package-initialize’ in init file” but can't find the call to `package-initialize`
I'm running Emacs from HEAD on Mac OS. I installed emacs-plus using the --HEAD argument with homebrew.
I did a whole grep for (package-initialize) in ~/.emacs.d/. The only reference I found to it is ...
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Remove the auto-generated marks from dired buffer
Upon invoking dired with C-x d, it display
Five of the files have already been marked automatically ,
Consult with the manual of operation on files
Strik U and * u to remove the mark but failed.
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Org agenda suddenly broken after installing org-mac-link
Org agenda is suddenly broken Symbol’s value as variable is void: org-tag-group-re. How to fix it?
Diagnosis:
The problematic code seems to be this:
;; org-mac-link
(push (expand-file-name "~/....
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Skip the first breakpoint in entry file with Geben
Simple question, how can I run the XDebug debugger with Geben without it stopping execution on the first line of the entry file. What I would like is for the scripts to run normally but only stop on a ...
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elisp debugger jumping windows around
I'm trying to use the built-in elisp debugger, invoked by debug, and read the source code at the same time. Unfortunately, whenever I continue execution, with either c or d, the debugger jumps around ...
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Error when exporting to pdf in org-mode
I get the following error when exporting to pdf directly in org-mode (C-c C-e l o), but conversion using pandoc with the exported tex document (C-c C-e l l) works fine. What went wrong?
Latex ...
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Reading at buffer position 2767`
I got such a error report but confused with 'position 2767`
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable |)
eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*-518868> nil "/home/me/.emacs.d/lisp/init-company.el" ...
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Org Link to png file displays as wildcard rather than the image file itself
When I click on a link to a certain recent screenshot, this is shown rather than the image itself.
/Users/satibodhi/Creation/notes:
wildcard 楷{氵尸}.png
-rw-r--r--@ 1 satibodhi staff 2373 Jul ...
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IO Error writing filename: Input/Output error
Using emacs 24.3-22 on CentOS 7.6.1810. Writing to home directory on cifs mounted share.
When writing a file auto-saves will work, but actually clicking the save button or doing Save As gives IO ...
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Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument wholenump -98) [duplicate]
I am working on Org 9.1.8 and emacs 26.1,
Every time I invoke Enter, it prompts
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument wholenump -98)
make-list(-98 nil)
lisp-indent-initial-state()...
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Symbol's function defintion is void: org-show-all
I get the above error when trying to archive my org agenda using C-c C-x C-a and/or C-c C-x C-s, according to instructions over here. My archive location is set the default.
UPDATE:
After following ...
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Symbol's value as variable is void: ‘yes-or-no-p
I have the following lines in my config file:
(fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)
(setq confirm-kill-emacs ‘yes-or-no-p)
The latter line is what's throwing the error. I would like to be able to use 'y-or-...
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Org-table misaligns with Chinese data
Org table vertical lines do not align properly with Chinese data.
| 標題一 | 標題二 | 標題三 |
|----------+--------------+----------|
| 中文圖表 | 直線會對不準 | 像這樣子 |
| 這 | 是不是 | 問題 |
| ...
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after-change-functions global value gets set to nil sometimes
I'm facing a strange issue and I don't know how to debug it. In the middle of work after-change-functions just gets set to nil. I use doom-modeline and it installs hooks to after-change-functions to ...
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org-mind-map unable to find flatten and dot command
I get the following error when running org-mind-map.
Paths the each are as follows:
$ which unflatten
/usr/local/bin/unflatten
$ which dot
/usr/local/bin/dot
How to tell org-mind-map to access ...
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Ditaa source code evaluated with no result
The code below evaluated successfully but ~/Downloads/foo.png is empty. A look at the downloads folder shows that no file has been generated. What went wrong?
#+begin_src ditaa :file ~/Downloads/foo....
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`scad-mode` (derived from CC Mode) hangs Emacs. How to debug/fix?
I have found that scad-mode.el, a derived mode from CC Mode, which can be found here:
https://github.com/openscad/openscad/blob/master/contrib/scad-mode.el
hangs emacs if I type
#(
into the window,...
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How can I debug a hang when debug-on-quit doesn't work?
I have a problem with haskell-mode where Emacs will hang every time I open up a Haskell file. Mashing Ctrl-g a few times will get the file opened.
So I would imagine setting debug-on-quit would allow ...
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can I use .dir-locals.el to set a default mode for files, and still allow dired?
I have a directory that is all little shell code snippets for being sourced.
Tried creating an auto-mode-alist, that does not seem to be effective, so tried creating a .dir-locals.el thusly:
((nil . ...
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org-insert-link sometimes produces “wrong type argument: stringp, nil” after prolonged use of emacs
It usually happens after a couple of days of use that C-c C-l / org-insert-link inside .org files does not allow me to insert new links anymore.
What I want to do is interactively insert link ...
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Why an error when calling a command in a specific buffer?
Q: why do I get errors when calling a command from a specific buffer, but not in any other buffer?
Scratch all of what I had previously said about
call-interactively (see strikethrough below for ...
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Org-ref not communicating with Tex-live?
Org-ref cannot tell that I have biblatex-caspervector installed.
Is this because of some packages that I missed?
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org-mode internal link works only in some cases
I have an .org document with the following structure.
* Headline 1
This is some text
* Headline 2
:Custom_id: h2
This is heading number two
** Sub heading 1
<<target>>
** Sub heading ...
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org-ref “Unbalanced parentheses”, 20306, 18248 error
I am new to org-mode and I am learning to use it to replace markdown for academic writing.
M-x org-ref gave me this error: org-ref "Unbalanced parentheses", 20306, 18248 error
What should I do ...
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what's wrong with my elisp? (“Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-function”) [closed]
so I'm learning elisp and wouldn't ask this if I could figure out what was wrong with just the debug message. I'm trying to implement a super basic LRU cache (with the keys in the map just mapping to ...
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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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Tramp hanging on writing or opening file
Tramp consistently hangs, for me, when opening or writing a remote file. None of the ‘why is Tramp hanging...?’ resources I've found seem to address my situation.
What's odd is that this used to ...
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Why doesn't Emacs accept keyboard input in timers? [duplicate]
I've managed to write a timer that reliably causes keyboard input not to be accepted until I press Ctrl-G.
The issue is, I don't know what causes the timer to lock up, what the stack frame is when it'...
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Some lisp errors not showing a backtrace
I have a few custom written methods in my init file.
They run in to null issues - too often :)
Anywhen, I noticed for some errors emacs pull up a backtrace/debugger prompt for me. But often the error ...
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Unable to quit emacs with `Wrong type argument: hash-table-p, nil`
I have some customisations in ~/.emacs.el. Today I refactored a piece that used dolist, directory-files, and find-file. I am now unable to quit Emacs in the normal way and I get this from the mini-...
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How to append an argument to an external command in init.el?
I 1must append a config file to 2package command, required as -p
puppeteer-config.json. In my init.el, I tried changing the native command as
shown below:
From:
(setq ob-mermaid-cli-path "~/...
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Surprisingly persistent local variable
A local variable keeps coming back, and I know not whence.
In a certain buffer,
TeX-command-extra-options is "--synctex=1", even after I have removed
this from my init.el and restarted Emacs.
I tried ...
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`gud-print` results in “Text is read-only” message
Whenever I run gud-print (C-xC-aC-p) with my cursor positioned on a variable while debugging with GUD (specifically via the gdb command), I get the message "Text is read-only" in the echo area. I can'...
