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Debugging XEmacs

This page is trying to lower the entry level for anybody who wants to debug problems with the installation or operation of XEmacs.

While the diagnosis of a flat tire is fairly intuitive (you just rotate all four tires around the car and observe whether the fault moves with it), debugging problems with XEmacs can be frustrating to beginners. This is because XEmacs is not just another editor, it's better thought of as an operating environment or system.

Following are the most obvious resources to get started with the debugging of XEmacs. Please report any problems you may have to access these resources.

XEmacs FAQ

Installation and Trouble Shooting

Windows Installation (Windows, Cygwin, MinGW)

XEmacs Mailing Lists

Report or search problems on UNIX

Report or search problems on Windows

Submit or search patches for XEmacs

Reporting Bugs

If possible, please install the latest net-utils package (>=1.23) from http://ftp.xemacs.org/packages/ or a mirror and then use one of these options:

• Help->Send Bug Report...
• M-x report-xemacs-bug

This will tell us enough about your XEmacs installation so that we should be able to help you.

On some operating systems, especially some current Linux distributions, core files have been disabled by default. Typing ulimit -c unlimited in the shell before starting XEmacs from it may help you in getting a core file.

If XEmacs does not build or start up, or you don't have a working net-utils package, then please send mail to xemacs-beta@xemacs.org by other means as plain text (MIME attachments are OK, but please don't send HTML mail).

Bug Tracking System

XEmacs does not currently have an automated bug tracking system. The best way to report bugs is via M-x report-xemacs-bug.

Please write us, if you are interested in selecting, installing and/or maintaining a new Bug Tracking System for XEmacs.