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Re: Identifying initialization error after invalid read syntax: ?


From: Michael Heerdegen
Subject: Re: Identifying initialization error after invalid read syntax: ?
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 12:18:52 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

goncholden via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> How can I identify the problem emanating from the following
> initialization error?
>
> Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading
> ‘/home/hagbard/.emacs’:
>
> Invalid read syntax: ?

Explicitly loading the file (e.g. with L from dired) tells you the exact
column and line numbers of the problem.  Byte compiling also helps (as
most of the time).

Please see my answer in the "visible-whitespace-mode" thread for the
cause.

Michael.




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