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Re: Help


From: Tassilo Horn
Subject: Re: Help
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:11:20 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux)

"Rhey, David" <drhey@umich.edu> writes:

Hi David,

> "An error has occurred while loading '/home/david/.emacs'
>
> Invalid read syntax: ") or . in a vector"
>
> There is a list of things that comes before this error,

Then poste them, and if possible make that .emacs available, if there
are no private things like passwords in them.

> and a small suggestion to run '-debug-init' after it.

Then do exactly that: emacs --debug-init

You'll get a backtrace, which should point you to the offending form.

Bye,
Tassilo





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