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From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Invalid read syntax: ")"
Date: Sun, 06 May 2018 06:28:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7tdmmqe.fsf@telefonica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 19BA809B-9E7D-409D-95B3-BE016E3A24DD@gmail.com

Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> writes:

> I have an Invalid read syntax: ")" when I start emacs.
>
> When I do emacs -q and eval-buffer on .emacs.el I get the error again
> but check-parens does not give me anything there, which is the only
> file that I use for customizations.
>
> ...
>
> Any idea how to diagnose that ?

Comment out the last half of your .emacs. If the problem still happens,
comment the last half of the first half, etc. If the the problem does
not happen, un-comment the firt half of the code you just commented-out,
etc.

At the end, you end with an expression that causes the problem.

This is known as a bisection.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-05-06  4:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-06  4:09 Invalid read syntax: ")" Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-05-06  4:15 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-06  4:46   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-06  8:26     ` Noam Postavsky
2018-05-06 15:32   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-05-06 16:03     ` Drew Adams
2018-05-07  0:14       ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-05-07  0:33         ` Noam Postavsky
2018-05-07  3:54           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-05-07  4:05             ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-05-07 17:55             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-08  0:43               ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-05-07  0:33         ` Óscar Fuentes
2018-05-07  1:13           ` Óscar Fuentes
2018-05-06  4:28 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2018-05-06 18:36 ` Joost Kremers

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