The fates are still punishing me for leaving home for travel. Today I had two errands to run:
- Renew a driver license
- Return an unused TV set top box to my provider
The DMV is, of course, a red flag but it turned out taking 3 hours. Three hours at the DMV is no one’s idea of a good time. After I staggered out of the DMV I went to my provider to drop off the TV set top box. That should take about 5 minutes, right? Silly you and me. That took an hour and a half.
In any event, I’m exhausted and ready for bed so today’s post is going to be ultrashort. The other day I wrote about Prot’s post on using --init-directory as an aid in debugging. Serendipitously, I ran across this post about ready-player freezing. The developer, Álvaro Ramírez, asks the user to provide information on his configuration and Emacs version.
This is a perfect example of where Prot’s advice would be useful. The user could easily build and install a temporary init.el to eliminate everything but what’s needed to produce the problem. Doing so might even allow the user to discover the problem on their own.