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From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Identifying initialization error after invalid read syntax: ?
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 18:40:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6akqxmk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6akq0s3.fsf@web.de>

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> 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).

In addition, starting emacs with --debug-init might also shed some
light.

Bye,
Tassilo



      reply	other threads:[~2022-06-10 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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
2022-06-10 16:40   ` Tassilo Horn [this message]

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