Hi Mark, I hope you are well.
As Tyler points out the attachment didn't make it. However, I do see this bit: Reading at buffer position 432 load-with-code-conversion("/home/markleeds/.emacs "/home/markleeds/.emacs" t t) load("~/.emacs" t t) If the latter two lines appear literally in a file you are trying to load, then you have fallen into the trap of using R like syntax where lisp is needed. (I do know emacs-lisp and do this myself more than I want to admit.) So move the open parens BEFORE the function names, viz. (load-with-code-conversion "/home/markleeds/.emacs "/home/markleeds/.emacs" t t ) (load "~/.emacs" t t) HTH, Chuck > On Oct 19, 2021, at 2:03 AM, Mark Leeds via ESS-help <ess-help@r-project.org> > wrote: > > Hi All: Would anyone mind doing me a big favor and fixing any ( even one is > great ) problems in my current dotemacs file. I was able to get some of it > to run but when it hits the auto-complete section, I start having all kinds > of problems. For most of it, ( from the auto-complete section and on ), I > just copied the dotemacs file used at the link below ( the www.code.rd.com > link ) . But things either changed dramatically since that link was created > or the author is maybe not showing the whole file ? > > I'm lisp illiterate which obviously doesn't help. I use ubuntu but I doubt > that matters. > > This all sounded like a good idea when I started it but now its been > three days and I'm still not terribly far. Thanks to Rich Heiberger who was > influential in getting the top part to work before it hits the > auto-complete section. The dotemacsfile is > attached. Note that the code in the dotemacsfile with all the semi-colons > is the code from the link here. I don't see any typos but I could be > mistaken. Or > maybe the link itself has typos ? Thanks so much for help in any way. > > https://www.codetd.com/en/article/8181443 > > #=========================================================== > # ERROR THAT emacs --debug-init temp.R GIVES BUT I DOUBT THAT'S THE ONLY > ONE > #======================================================= > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-read-syntax ")") > eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*> nil "/home/markleeds/.emacs" nil t) ; > Reading at buffer position 432 > load-with-code-conversion("/home/markleeds/.emacs" > "/home/markleeds/.emacs" t t) > load("~/.emacs" t t) > #[0 " \205\262 > ______________________________________________ > ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help > ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help