Re: [O] Idea: insert "current sort order" property

[Christian Moe]

Hi,

Not sure I can help; I don't quite see how this error could be caused 
by anything in the code I sent you. Is this happening on the same 
system as you used before? What version of Emacs are you on when this 
happens?

Yours,
Christian

On 10/13/11 1:40 PM, Gez wrote:

> Thanks.  I got it to work from a scratch buffer but not from .emacs
> (previous version worked fine from my .emacs).  Restarting emacs
> showed an error.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading
> `q:/Q_Synced/Portable/emacs-23.3/home/.emacs':
>
> Invalid read syntax: #
>
> To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the
> cause of the error in your initialization file.  Start Emacs with
> the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I couldn't copy the whole backtrace here (an encoding issue?)  Here's
> the start and end of it in case it's any help:
> _______________________________________
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-read-syntax "#")
>    eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*>  nil
> "q:/Q_Synced/Portable/emacs-23.3/home/.emacs" nil t)  ; Reading at
> buffer position 13136
>    load-with-code-conversion("q:/Q_Synced/Portable/emacs-23.3/home/.emacs"
> "q:/Q_Synced/Portable/emacs-23.3/home/.emacs" t t)
>    load("~/.emacs" t t)
>    #[nil
> <un-pastable stuff snipped>
> [init-file-user system-type user-init-file-1 user-init-file otherfile
> source ms-dos "~" "/_emacs" windows-nt directory-files nil
> "^\\.emacs\\(\\.elc?\\)?$" "~/.emacs" "^_emacs\\(\\.elc?\\)?$"
> "~/_emacs" "/.emacs" t load expand-file-name "init"
> file-name-as-directory "/.emacs.d" file-name-extension "elc"
> file-name-sans-extension ".el" file-exists-p file-newer-than-file-p
> message "Warning: %s is newer than %s" sit-for 1 "default" alt
> inhibit-default-init inhibit-startup-screen] 7]()
>    command-line()
>    normal-top-level()
> _________________________________________
>
> Gez