Hello,

I'm an IT worker with the University of Michigan. I have a professor who has a fairly detailed .emacs file that he's worked with for years. I recently built him a VM for his laptop. He would like the .emacs file from his desktop imported to his laptop VM. Every time I replace the original .emacs file contents with his original I get the following error (upon opening a terminal and typing: emacs):

"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, and a small suggestion to run '-debug-init' after it. I've been working on this off and on for awhile now, but haven't made any breakthroughs. Any help or insight would be most appreciated.

Regards,

David
UMICH Chemistry IT