Thanks Bernt,
So, "broken custom settings" appear to be the cause of the unexpected
behavior. Two questions:
1) Do programmers have a name for this situation, where custom
settings seemed to work perfectly for a long time but then failed
noticeably with the introduction of new, correct code into the .emacs?
2) Is there a useful strategy for finding the minimal .emacs that
illustrates the failure? I might have 100 customizations in the
various starter kit configuration files. If combinations of
customizations are a possibility, I'm looking at quite a bit of random
experimentation without some kind of strategy.
All the best,
Tom
On May 24, 2010, at 5:50 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote:
"Thomas S. Dye" <t...@tsdye.com> writes:
Aloha Carsten,
I think I need to know what is meant by "minimal .emacs."
I have a minimal.emacs which is a stripped down .emacs that only has
what I need to invoke org-mode for reproducing a problem.
,----[ minimal.emacs ]
| (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/git/org-mode/lisp"))
| (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.\\(org\\|org_archive\\|txt\\)
$" . org-mode))
| (setq org-agenda-files '("/tmp/test.org"))
| (require 'org-install)
| (require 'org-habit)
|
| (global-set-key "\C-cl" 'org-store-link)
| (global-set-key "\C-ca" 'org-agenda)
| (global-set-key "\C-cb" 'org-iswitchb)
`----
and I load this with emacs -Q -l ~/minimal.emacs. I'll normally
edit it
to add whatever is needed to reproduce the problem in org-mode.
Using a stripped down minimal .emacs files removes broken custom
settings as the cause of the issue and makes it easy to reproduce for
other people.
HTH,
Bernt
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