From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: RE: 23.0.50; savehist save invalid syntax Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 06:21:19 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188739433 30549 80.91.229.12 (2 Sep 2007 13:23:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 13:23:53 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 02 15:23:52 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IRpQa-0001bm-4c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 15:23:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IRpQZ-0004M3-1E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 09:23:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IRpQU-0004JG-HJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 09:23:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IRpQS-0004HY-CI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 09:23:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IRpQS-0004HV-3l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 09:23:40 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IRpQR-0005VZ-TV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 09:23:40 -0400 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IRpQF-0008OR-6x for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 09:23:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IRpQO-0005Uz-An for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 09:23:39 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IRpQN-0005Po-U9 for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 09:23:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (rgmgw1.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.110]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l82DN3wE025515 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2007 08:23:03 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id l82D3MYh012809 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2007 07:23:02 -0600 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-whq-csvpn-gw3-141-144-80-148.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3177810741188739279; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 06:21:19 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:77586 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:19698 Archived-At: > `savehist' saves something with invalid syntax and prevents emacs to > start up next time. The error is: >=20 > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-read-syntax "#") I've seen this also. A workaround, to be able to start up, is to use = emacs -Q and manually edit the history file, wiping out the history (or = at least the parts with #).