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(efaq)Debugging a customization file

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How do I debug a `.emacs' file?
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   Start Emacs with the `-debug-init' command-line option.  This
enables the Emacs Lisp debugger before evaluating your `.emacs' file,
and places you in the debugger if something goes wrong.  The top line
in the `trace-back' buffer will be the error message, and the second or
third line of that buffer will display the Lisp code from your `.emacs'
file that caused the problem.

   You can also evaluate an individual function or argument to a
function in your `.emacs' file by moving the cursor to the end of the
function or argument and typing `C-x C-e' (`M-x eval-last-sexp').

   Use `C-h v' (`M-x describe-variable') to check the value of
variables which you are trying to set or use.