ESS on Panther

[A.J. Rossini]

Kieran Healy <kjhealy at arizona.edu> writes:

> Hi -
>
> I upgraded to OS X 10.3 (Panther) and installed the carbon build of GNU
> Emacs 21.3.50.1 from http://mindlube.com/products/emacs/index.html.
>
> When I load it, attempting to initialize ESS in the normal way in my .emacs
> -- (load "~/elisp/ess-5.1.24/lisp/ess-site") -- gives the following error:
>
> An error has occurred while loading `/Users/kjhealy/.emacs':
>
> Invalid read syntax: ?
>
> Which is sadly not very informative to me :(
>
> Is this a known problem? Any ideas how to fix it?

It means that your .emacs is ill-formed.  Either you've forgotten a
paren or a quote or added an additional one...

best,
-tony

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