From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com>,
Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Invalid read syntax: ")"
Date: Sun, 6 May 2018 09:03:30 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d91573f-0a6f-46f8-9497-e3febfb3b89c@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C7486160-24F7-4F92-9AA1-3A5765DCDA91@gmail.com>
> >> I have an Invalid read syntax: ")" when I start emacs.
> >> Any idea how to diagnose that ?
> >
> > "emacs --debug-init"
> > That will at least show you which file the problem is in
>
> But what I get is:
> $ emacs --debug-init
> Invalid read syntax: ")"
As Oscar suggested, _bisect your init file_ to find the
culprit. This a binary search, so it is quick, even if
it does not seem so at first.
You can comment out selected text (the active region)
using command `comment-region'. (I bind it to `C-x C-;'.)
With `C-u', it removes a level of commenting. (So if
there are no nested comments then it uncomments.)
Some people use `comment-dwim' (`M-;') or `comment-line'
(the default binding for `C-x C-;'), instead of
`comment-region'. It's all good.
---
Actually, I bind `C-x C-;' to `comment-region-lines',
from `misc-cmds.el', and I use that. It's kind of
like `comment-region' combined with `comment-line'.
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/misc-cmds.el
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-06 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ 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 [this message]
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
2018-05-06 18:36 ` Joost Kremers
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-01-27 13:07 Invalid read syntax "#"? Alan Schmitt
2012-01-27 15:24 ` Nick Dokos
2012-01-27 15:37 ` Nick Dokos
2012-01-28 15:55 ` Bastien
2012-01-30 13:15 ` Alan Schmitt
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