From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:11:20 +0100 Message-ID: <87ljgcwenb.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <8A3A380847DF834FBCFEEE233F322BA406E2E8AD8E@ITCS-ECLS-1-VS3.adsroot.itcs.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262718759 21746 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2010 19:12:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 19:12:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 05 20:12:32 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NSEpS-0004fg-Rz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:12:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50772 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSEpS-0003yF-Ri for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:12:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSEos-0003rz-NY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:11:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSEoo-0003qR-P5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:11:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54815 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSEoo-0003qK-HL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:11:50 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:54574) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NSEoo-0005Jz-2z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:11:50 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NSEoi-0004K2-AV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:11:44 +0100 Original-Received: from p54af1ea2.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([84.175.30.162]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:11:44 +0100 Original-Received: from tassilo by p54af1ea2.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:11:44 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p54af1ea2.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tgf+cRd1FqS2gCLNdsqCovpX7so= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:71074 Archived-At: "Rhey, David" writes: Hi David, > "An error has occurred while loading '/home/david/.emacs' > > Invalid read syntax: ") or . in a vector" > > There is a list of things that comes before this error, Then poste them, and if possible make that .emacs available, if there are no private things like passwords in them. > and a small suggestion to run '-debug-init' after it. Then do exactly that: emacs --debug-init You'll get a backtrace, which should point you to the offending form. Bye, Tassilo