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Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> 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 ?

"emacs --debug-init"

That will at least show you which file the problem is in. I get this all
the time (despite using paredit).