From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Raimund.Kohl@freenet.de Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: question impossible Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:19:55 +0000 (GMT) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033720074 27449 127.0.0.1 (4 Oct 2002 08:27:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 08:27:54 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17xNoO-00078T-00 for ; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 10:27:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17xNoA-0003Dj-00; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 04:27:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17xNnB-0000NB-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 04:26:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17xNn1-0008Lz-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 04:26:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mout0.freenet.de ([194.97.50.131]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17xNk4-00026i-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 04:23:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.97.50.144] (helo=mx1.freenet.de) by mout0.freenet.de with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17xNk3-0007QZ-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 10:23:23 +0200 Original-Received: from a7990.pppool.de ([213.6.121.144] helo=laptop.rkc) by mx1.freenet.de with esmtp (Exim 4.10 #1) id 17xNk2-0003tn-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 10:23:23 +0200 Original-Received: by laptop.rkc (Postfix on SuSE Linux 8.0 (i386), from userid 500) id 927622D66D; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:19:57 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by laptop.rkc (Postfix on SuSE Linux 8.0 (i386)) with ESMTP id 158362D662 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:19:56 +0000 (GMT) X-X-Sender: ray@laptop.rkc Original-To: emacs mailing list Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:2248 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:2248 Hi, I know I shouldn't have done it ... curiosity killed the cat ... but somehow I'd been into playing with the options menu looking for a way to tell emacs which coding to use by default instead of asking me always. Well, I didn't find it, but that's not the problem. I saved "something" - I believe it was something dealing with "latin-1" (as you can see I am not a techi!) I now have to face a strange behaviour: If I want to open a file via the bookmarks command (C-x r b) emacs answers "Invalid read syntax: ". in wrong context" What's that saying and how can I change that? I searched my .emacs file about it and found, that it didn't hold any text - instead a whole bunch of cryptic whatsoever. So I exchanged it by a previous .emacs I had saved - but the behaviour of emacs doesn't change. So I think I must look for that problem elsewhere. Can anybody help me? Thank you, ray