Re: How to debug init.m?
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- Subject: [mg92332] Re: How to debug init.m?
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:22:16 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Bergen
- References: <gbl30f$m0g$1@smc.vnet.net>
Bob F wrote: > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to debug a problem with an > init.m file (located in ~/Library/Mathematica/FrontEnd)? I am using > Mathematica 6.0.3 on Mac OS X (both 10.4 and 10.5 show the problem) > and if I simply start up the program and have a completely empty > notebook, then open the "Options Inspector" and then start up the > "Documentation Center" the program always crashes. If I empty the > init.m file there is no crash, so the problem is related to what it > has. But, the things that are there are there because of how I want > things set up, e.g. positions of palettes, kernel configuration > definitions, recently opened files, etc, and only because Mathematica > puts them in there according to how I have things defined and what > files I have opened, etc. I have not edited this file by hand, so the > error is there as a result of Mathematica. I have looked at the file > and don't find any strange control-characters or anything glaringly > obvious, but it's all regular looking text in the typical verbose > Mathematica low-level encoding. > > The file has 218 lines in it right now, so trying to debug by > eliminating things line by line is a bit daunting. Don't remove lines one-by-one. Halve the number of lines. That way it takes only Log[2, 218] ~= 8 steps instead of 218.