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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Invalid read syntax: ")"
Date: Sun, 6 May 2018 20:33:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-_e2T+hRFHx3ovroKuFMJq=0GVCZx+2r=nSsh8=Oq=9aA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <248C0FF3-87D2-434A-8478-F2E0A8EFC852@gmail.com>

On 6 May 2018 at 20:14, Jean-Christophe Helary
<jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> wrote:

>>> But what I get is:
>>> $ emacs --debug-init
>>> Invalid read syntax: ")"

Perhaps it happens after init time?

> I understand what a binary search is, but I was first wondering if among the hundreds of thousands of functions in emacs, there would not be one that does the trick. Like actually giving the expression that is not properly closed. If a manual binary search can do it, surely an automatic binary search (if one ought to exist) can...

You said you could get the error with M-x eval-buffer, right? Perhaps
just doing M-x toggle-debug-on-error before that will get the
backtrace (which should include the buffer position of the offending
")").



  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-07  0:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-06  4:09 Invalid read syntax: ")" Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-05-06  4:15 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-06  4:46   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-06  8:26     ` Noam Postavsky
2018-05-06 15:32   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-05-06 16:03     ` Drew Adams
2018-05-07  0:14       ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-05-07  0:33         ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2018-05-07  3:54           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-05-07  4:05             ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-05-07 17:55             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-08  0:43               ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-05-07  0:33         ` Óscar Fuentes
2018-05-07  1:13           ` Óscar Fuentes
2018-05-06  4:28 ` Óscar Fuentes
2018-05-06 18:36 ` Joost Kremers
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-01-27 13:07 Invalid read syntax "#"? Alan Schmitt
2012-01-27 15:24 ` Nick Dokos
2012-01-27 15:37   ` Nick Dokos
2012-01-28 15:55 ` Bastien
2012-01-30 13:15   ` Alan Schmitt

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