====== Notes on troubles I've had with GNU Emacs ======

A random scrapbook of problems and solutions for things I've stubbed my toe on with GNU Emacs.

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Starting up Emacs24 one day, and the C++ setup didn't get run. I enabled

''(setq debug-on-error t)''

in my ''.emacs.d/init.el'' and saw:

''c-font-lock-fontify-region: Symbol's function definition is void: nil''

Running with ''emacs -Q'' to disable startup scripts saw everything working, so it's something in ''init.el''. A bit of guesswork/triangulation later, and it's this line:

'''(font-lock-mode t t (font-lock))''

in ''(custom-set-variables''.

I suspect this is an old line turning on global font lock. Now replaced by ''global-font-lock-mode'' which appears to be on by default anyway. I removed the line and all is now well.