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Re: Identifying initialization error after invalid read syntax: ?


From: Tassilo Horn
Subject: Re: Identifying initialization error after invalid read syntax: ?
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 18:40:59 +0200
User-agent: mu4e 1.7.26; emacs 29.0.50

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> 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).

In addition, starting emacs with --debug-init might also shed some
light.

Bye,
Tassilo



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