RE: [h-e-w] ruby-mode.el crashes my Emacs 2.3.1 on NT4

[PaulBowman]

Hi,

It was the original .el file. Following your suggestion I narrowed the 
offending section down to
(eval-when-compile (require 'cl))

or just (require 'cl) AFAICS. Yet when I do an eval-current-buffer on cl.el I 
don't get any problems - presumably I need to get rid of cl.elc and recompile 
the thing.

OK, thanks for you help (note to self: must learn e-lisp one of these days...)

cheers,

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Rumney [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 21 March 2006 22:27
> To: Bowman, Paul (HBOS Group Technology)
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [h-e-w] ruby-mode.el crashes my Emacs 2.3.1 on NT4
> 
> 
> address@hidden writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > After copying ruby-mode.el from the current ruby release into my
> > Emacs/lisp/progmodes folder, my attempt to load-library ruby-mode
> > ends consistently in a pretty abrupt crash.
> 
> Is there a ruby-mode.elc as well, or only ruby-mode.el? If there is an
> elc file, try deleting it. If it works after that, you can recreate
> the elc file with M-x byte-compile-file. The original elc file may
> have been compiled with an incompatible version of XEmacs (I think the
> current version of XEmacs is bytecode compatible with the current
> version of Gnu Emacs, but there have been incompatibilities in the
> past)
> 
> If Emacs is crashing with just the .el file, then instead of loading
> it in one go, open the file and execute parts of the file with M-x
> eval-region until you narrow down the function that is causing the
> crash.
> 
> 

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