Package: emacsen-common
Version: 1.4.16
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
File: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup.el
When an error occurs loading one of the /etc/emacs/site-start.d parts,
it'd be nice if the message included the error description, to give a
clue what went wrong. As per the change below perhaps.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-386
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages emacsen-common depends on:
ii bsdmainutils 6.1.2 collection of more utilities from
emacsen-common recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- debian-startup.el.orig 2005-09-19 08:31:32.293105272 +1000
+++ debian-startup.el 2005-09-19 08:47:25.649173120 +1000
@@ -120,9 +120,10 @@
;; ordering.
(mapcar
(lambda (file)
- (condition-case ()
+ (condition-case err
(load file nil)
- (error (message "Error while loading %s" file))))
+ (error (message "Error while loading %s: %s"
+ file (error-message-string err)))))
base-names)
;; restore the old load-path -- including any new paths added by
;; files loaded in directory traversal.
