From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Noam Postavsky Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Invalid read syntax: ")" Date: Sun, 6 May 2018 04:26:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <19BA809B-9E7D-409D-95B3-BE016E3A24DD@gmail.com> <87k1sh4dya.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87fu354cj9.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1525610519 22219 195.159.176.226 (6 May 2018 12:41:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 May 2018 12:41:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eric Abrahamsen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 06 14:41:55 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 1fFIz9-0005eX-Vc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 May 2018 14:41:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42058 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fFJ1G-0000mN-Tx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 May 2018 08:44:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38052) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fFEzi-0001Ar-1Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 May 2018 04:26:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fFEzh-0001Ii-4c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 May 2018 04:26:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ot0-x22c.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c0f::22c]:43198) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fFEzg-0001Hd-ST for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 May 2018 04:26:09 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-ot0-x22c.google.com with SMTP id y10-v6so28845094otg.10 for ; Sun, 06 May 2018 01:26:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=DonByLklL0B+a9efUhonu9RNHzriuFffIJWRE7dQhCM=; b=LRbj+qVYbmJ3/YhHStWzuLQy9fNi8Ub5VcKZmjS+cvic9kC4cvXd/27zBi6NlgJhSg GO9MuWefk08JdpsVbh3OXe7h62QM0JQCn06TXpIaJ82tw7vj2s/ZcfFiQOSrQn1Njw6o t36nQka1ig8dsJFjLqnbeRErSIXIqhrDZ7enSmmIjRjBTZIicAUXA4EFQNKOOxnINTDh tJMwzDVB+lJbNuN3IC1j0Xo4f0Y1TeWI4RXq1t6dOJGcoy6f3RkytitoZhc+/cnWN/F4 Pp8dqQmij/3MctuL4NWYpdzaHmAdFYkYcss4EwEGla/OozXm07dG30DmE6UO8PpzH46E hruA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=DonByLklL0B+a9efUhonu9RNHzriuFffIJWRE7dQhCM=; b=ZAzl1T9IekHj+4ntmOZjEjSar2y/xI7C0t+47B4Lk6LA+ZFXujMji/q4WkjbMSMqcp mm6K0szJh4Zbv3Y0fZtk8Q3g/OXofl/CQge+gpP6mSR/drw1Zd/3DCcySRTPLd/y8P3j f7a2EWuBcmOHCcZrR7lgEvdMmnhD6IgqNW+5yJageVagbukwcbB5ib2IC2OjPyZ1DPsh DXASwh8pAzxw6EoqwR/vJym/Jm+aNLLEoDP86f4EY6f5wAwZ1zr2oie054wu4IR116CK B5a5fTFJvkqEkCI2U6ydp0VtrOzymB9av3X3YyPIGrBoJUYV8+MfQAf5Mi8DL1eFJEv3 h1KQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALQs6tBee7BozKsrqBcm3nJVlzLB40/obmWucdychwQe30TzM6JusxFJ QbO//WLapVWbimVwLKHUFuaA/Eyh6F5+Gz4MIRg= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AB8JxZq5ixqCxW3lDJwf7sjGotCdE9ug/t8jGephdcKnVJymPvs6ZgmngqjiNgM6B7YUDzZZe5YJQHmDORey66H6X6o= X-Received: by 2002:a9d:4086:: with SMTP id n6-v6mr22299351ote.335.1525595167761; Sun, 06 May 2018 01:26:07 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.74.5.135 with HTTP; Sun, 6 May 2018 01:26:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87fu354cj9.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4003:c0f::22c X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 06 May 2018 08:43:28 -0400 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:116660 Archived-At: On 6 May 2018 at 00:46, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> 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 ? >> >> "emacs --debug-init" > > Oops, I didn't notice that you'd already found the file. Ignore me! The debugger backtrace should still give you useful info, there should be a line like eval-buffer(# ...) ; Reading at buffer position xxxx Where xxxx should be the buffer position of the offending ")".