Re: Help-gnu-emacs digest, Vol 1 #792 - 8 msgs

Re: Help-gnu-emacs digest, Vol 1 #792 - 8 msgs

[Joe Corneli]

Hello, 

I am wondering: how should I read this Backtrace?  It isn't clear to 
me where the error occured in my custom.el file.  More generally,
what method would you suggest for debugging emacs lisp?

Joe

Signaling: (invalid-read-syntax ")")
  read(#<buffer " *Compiler Input*">)
  #<compiled-function nil "...(43)" [byte-compile-unresolved-functions
byte-compile-inbuffer 1 " 	\n" nil looking-at ";" byte-compile-file-form
read byte-compile-flush-pending
byte-compile-warn-about-unresolved-functions] 3>()
  call-with-condition-handler(#<compiled-function
(error-info) "...(4)" [error-info byte-compile-report-error] 2>
#<compiled-function nil "...(43)" [byte-compile-unresolved-functions
byte-compile-inbuffer 1 " 	\n" nil looking-at ";" byte-compile-file-form
read byte-compile-flush-pending
byte-compile-warn-about-unresolved-functions] 3>)
  byte-compile-from-buffer(#<buffer " *Compiler Input*">
"/Users/joe/.xemacs/custom.el")
  byte-compile-file("/Users/joe/.xemacs/custom.el" t)
  #<compiled-function nil "...(48)" [compiled-file-name buffer-file-name
error "The buffer must be saved in a file first" require bytecomp
buffer-modified-p y-or-n-p format "save buffer %s first? " buffer-name
save-buffer byte-compile-dest-file file-newer-than-file-p load-file
byte-compile-file t] 4 985940 nil>()
  call-interactively(emacs-lisp-byte-compile-and-load)