Re: Watchpoints for emacs lisp.

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:40 PM, alin.s <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
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>> Did you do all the steps in the instructions on EmacsWiki?
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>>    bzr whoami "Alin Soare <address@hidden>"
>>    bzr init-repo --2a emacs/
>>    cd emacs
>>    bzr checkout lp:emacs trunk
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> Thanks.
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> I have just restarted the computer. Your new combination made linux crash.
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> In the bottom there is the emacs directory , after I pressed the reset
> button.
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> It did not work. Probbaly it consommed all memory, because the hdd occupied
> all processor, and I had to press reset.


Bazaar uses a lot of memory when doing a checkout of Emacs. It seems
like it hit a GNU/Linux bug here.


> I do not know who played with emacs' sources, but the old cvs worked
> excellent. With bzr I have been trying for 2 days to check out, and I still
> have no idea how it works.


There are alternatives, but I have never used them. Please see:

   http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsFromGit