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.
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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.
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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:
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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()
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Gez