#these 2 lines are all that i have in my init file (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "/usr/local/share/c-sharp-emacs/csharp")) (require 'csde) #below is the message that i was given when i ran emacs with --debug-init Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Invalid escape character syntax") eval-buffer(#> nil "csde-csharp-grammar" nil t) load-with-code-conversion("/usr/local/share/c-sharp-emacs/csharp/csde-csharp-grammar.el" "csde-csharp-grammar" nil t) require(csde-csharp-grammar) eval-buffer(#> nil "csde-parse" nil t) load-with-code-conversion("/usr/local/share/c-sharp-emacs/csharp/csde-parse.el" "csde-parse" nil t) require(csde-parse) eval-buffer(#> nil "csde-db" nil t) load-with-code-conversion("/usr/local/share/c-sharp-emacs/csharp/csde-db.el" "csde-db" nil t) require(csde-db) eval-buffer(#> nil "csde" nil t) load-with-code-conversion("/usr/local/share/c-sharp-emacs/csharp/csde.el" "csde" nil t) require(csde) eval-buffer(# nil "~fred/.emacs" nil t) load-with-code-conversion("/home/fred/.emacs" "~fred/.emacs" t t) load("~fred/.emacs" t t) #[nil "…— Æ=ƒÇÈQ‚5 É=ƒ'ÊÇËÌ#ƒ#͂5΂5 Ï=ƒ1Ђ5ÇÑQÒÓ\n҉#ˆ Ò=ƒFË ƒˆÔ !՚ƒˆÖ !‰×PØ !ƒd ‚oØ\f!ƒn\f‚oˉƒ‡Ù\f \"ƒ…ÚÛ\f #ˆÜÝ!ˆ\f*†–Ë ÓÞ҉#))‡" [init-file-user system-type user-init-file-1 user-init-file source alt ms-dos "~" "/_emacs" windows-nt directory-files nil "^\\.emacs\\(\\.elc?\\)?$" "~/.emacs" "~/_emacs" vax-vms "sys$login:.emacs" "/.emacs" t load file-name-extension "elc" file-name-sans-extension ".el" file-exists-p file-newer-than-file-p message "Warning: %s is newer than %s" sit-for 1 "default" inhibit-default-init inhibit-startup-message] 5]() command-line() normal-top-level()