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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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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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'...
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pop-to-buffer: Wrong type argument: window-valid-p, #<window 117>PNG warning: Interlace handling should be turned on when using png_read_image
I occasionally run into the following error when opening a new file with projectile:
pop-to-buffer: Wrong type argument: window-valid-p, #<window 117>PNG warning: Interlace handling should be ...
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Figuring out what plugin is messing with my input
This is a more general question so I would like to know how to actually debug something like this. Suppose that I have some plugin that does section completion as code is being written. For example ...
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How to see *Messages* buffer in Spacemacs?
How to see *Messages* buffer as advised in this answer - https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/32069/23367?
Why do I need this?
I am new to Spacemacs and I am trying to understand how it can help me ...
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Need help with `expand-region`: Symbol’s function definition is void: org-outline-overlay-data
If I try to use er/expand-region but it fails with Symbol’s function definition is void: org-outline-overlay-data.
org-version :
Org mode version 9.2.2
In the release notes for the current org (9.2),...
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end of file during parsing during org-mode export to latex
I have a weird thing going on with emacs on Fedora 29.
Once in a blue moon, my Emacs will go HA! you cannot export to LaTeX with the "error": end of file during parsing during. However, if I move ...
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Wrong type argument: symbolp, possible mismatched parenteses in .spacemacs
I am trying to apply a fix to make it easier to change todo status in org mode. The code is the following:
'(
(org :variables org-want-todo-bindings t)
)
from https://github.com/syl20bnr/...
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ansi-term - wrong type argument: characterp, return
When using ansi-term on Emacs a get the following error whenever I press enter in char-mode:
wrong type argument: characterp, return
I used toggle-debug-on-error and get the following:
Debugger ...
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Invalid read syntax “#”
I'm having trouble using:
(add-hook ’before-save-hook #’gofmt-before-save)
This is supposed to format the go code before saving. The error I get is:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-read-...
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Emacs flashes when changing buffer with `ido-switch-buffer`
When I change buffer via ido-switch-buffer and enter a python buffer my entire Emacs flashes visually for a second. If I handle other files the same way, it does not. What can be the reason for that? ...
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How can I identify all changes to match-data?
I have a sporadic error when running query-replace:
Args out of range: #<buffer lib.rs>, 0, 1
There are similar questions:
Match data clobbered by buffer modification hooks
(RegEx-)Replace: ...
