From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jonas Steverud Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: question impossible Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 11:22:28 +0200 Organization: Church of Emacs, Missionary Dep. Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033723627 9614 127.0.0.1 (4 Oct 2002 09:27:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:27:07 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17xOjd-0002U9-00 for ; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 11:27:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17xOjc-0000tc-00; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 05:27:00 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!news.chalmers.se!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: licia.dtek.chalmers.se Original-X-Trace: nyheter.chalmers.se 1033723348 18424 129.16.30.88 (4 Oct 2002 09:22:28 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@chalmers.se Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Oct 2002 09:22:28 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dMd5qrhdeEGYJwh9lda6+BPiy/o= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:105708 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:2255 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:2255 Raimund.Kohl@freenet.de writes: > If I want to open a file > via the bookmarks command (C-x r b) emacs answers > > "Invalid read syntax: ". in wrong context" >From the Emacs info file, Bookmarks node: "[Bookmarks] persist automatically from one Emacs session to the next" In the same node: "your default bookmark file, `~/.emacs.bmk'" I would suspect that the bookmarks file is damaged. Either open it in Emacs and look and see if you can find the problem (probably '".' in the wrong place, as the error message says) or delete it. > What's that saying and how can I change that? I searched my .emacs file > about it and found, that it didn't hold any text - instead a whole bunch > of cryptic whatsoever. Was it plain elisp or some very strange letters? In the latter case it might be so that it got byte compiled on the way. -- ( www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d4jonas/ ! Wei Wu Wei ) ( Meaning of U2 Lyrics, Roleplaying ! To Do Without Do )