[ESS] emacs-ess and the dreaded dotemacs file

[Berry, Charles]

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 using 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
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