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
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