Re: Invalid read syntax: ")"

[Noam Postavsky]

On 6 May 2018 at 00:46, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I have an Invalid read syntax: ")" when I start emacs.
>>>
>>> When I do emacs -q and eval-buffer on .emacs.el I get the error again
>>> but check-parens does not give me anything there, which is the only
>>> file that I use for customizations.
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Any idea how to diagnose that ?
>>
>> "emacs --debug-init"
>
> Oops, I didn't notice that you'd already found the file. Ignore me!

The debugger backtrace should still give you useful info, there should
be a line like

  eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> ...)  ; Reading at buffer position xxxx

Where xxxx should be the buffer position of the offending ")".