Re: Invalid read syntax: ")"

[Noam Postavsky]

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
")").