From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Identifying initialization error after invalid read syntax: ?
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 12:18:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6akq0s3.fsf@web.de> (raw)
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goncholden via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
> How can I identify the problem emanating from the following
> initialization error?
>
> Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading
> ‘/home/hagbard/.emacs’:
>
> Invalid read syntax: ?
Explicitly loading the file (e.g. with L from dired) tells you the exact
column and line numbers of the problem. Byte compiling also helps (as
most of the time).
Please see my answer in the "visible-whitespace-mode" thread for the
cause.
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-10 10:18 UTC|newest]
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2022-06-10 4:21 Identifying initialization error after invalid read syntax: ? goncholden via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-06-10 10:18 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2022-06-10 16:40 ` Tassilo Horn
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