From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Invalid read syntax: ")" Date: Sun, 06 May 2018 06:28:25 +0200 Message-ID: <87a7tdmmqe.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <19BA809B-9E7D-409D-95B3-BE016E3A24DD@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1525580823 23670 195.159.176.226 (6 May 2018 04:27:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 May 2018 04:27:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 06 06:26:59 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fFBGE-000637-Q2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 May 2018 06:26:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40865 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fFBIL-00018a-QM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 May 2018 00:29:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38909) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fFBHq-00018V-7T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 May 2018 00:28:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fFBHm-0005kS-Ah for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 May 2018 00:28:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=56841 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fFBHm-0005jJ-3n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 May 2018 00:28:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fFBFc-0005RP-Gs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 May 2018 06:26:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:avw4J7HpN8fmMJDFbDCEAAEI/lY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116658 Archived-At: Jean-Christophe Helary writes: > I have an Invalid read syntax: ")" when I start emacs. > > When I do emacs -q and eval-buffer on .emacs.el I get the error again > but check-parens does not give me anything there, which is the only > file that I use for customizations. > > ... > > Any idea how to diagnose that ? Comment out the last half of your .emacs. If the problem still happens, comment the last half of the first half, etc. If the the problem does not happen, un-comment the firt half of the code you just commented-out, etc. At the end, you end with an expression that causes the problem. This is known as a bisection.