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31.0.50; End of file during parsing does not report a file name

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From: Christoph Göttschkes <christoph.goettschkes <at> posteo.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 31.0.50; End of file during parsing does not report a file name
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:54:03 +0000

During startup, if a file is loaded using `load' and that file has a
missing ), such that the parser reports an end of file during parsing,
the error message does not indicate which file was loaded.  Since during
startup, a lot of files might get loaded, it can be very difficult to
figure out which file contained the error.

Have two files, 'test-init.el' and 'test.el'.
test-init.el:

;;; test-init.el -*- coding: utf-8; lexical-binding: t; -*-
(load "~/test.el")

test.el:

;;; test.el -*- coding: utf-8; lexical-binding: t; -*-
(defun testing ()


Starting Emacs via emacs -Q -l test-init.el shows the error message:
End of file during parsing: #<killed buffer>
Also works with emacs -Q -l test.el, but not sure if that uses the same
`load' function or not, hence I created this setup which tries to
replicate my init procedure.  It happened to me, when loading my real
init.el, which happens to load an abbrev file using `load'.


In GNU Emacs 31.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
 3.24.51, cairo version 1.18.4) of 2025-12-22 built on marilyn
Repository revision: 998584eaad44bbfcc898ab86891bfa1137ae0396
Repository branch: master
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Message #8 received at 80063 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Christoph Göttschkes <christoph.goettschkes <at> posteo.net>
Cc: 80063 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#80063: 31.0.50;
 End of file during parsing does not report a file name
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:39:53 +0200

> From: Christoph Göttschkes <christoph.goettschkes <at> posteo.net>
> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:54:03 +0000
> 
> 
> During startup, if a file is loaded using `load' and that file has a
> missing ), such that the parser reports an end of file during parsing,
> the error message does not indicate which file was loaded.  Since during
> startup, a lot of files might get loaded, it can be very difficult to
> figure out which file contained the error.
> 
> Have two files, 'test-init.el' and 'test.el'.
> test-init.el:
> 
> ;;; test-init.el -*- coding: utf-8; lexical-binding: t; -*-
> (load "~/test.el")
> 
> test.el:
> 
> ;;; test.el -*- coding: utf-8; lexical-binding: t; -*-
> (defun testing ()
> 
> 
> Starting Emacs via emacs -Q -l test-init.el shows the error message:
> End of file during parsing: #<killed buffer>
> Also works with emacs -Q -l test.el, but not sure if that uses the same
> `load' function or not, hence I created this setup which tries to
> replicate my init procedure.  It happened to me, when loading my real
> init.el, which happens to load an abbrev file using `load'.

When I perform this experiment with my real init file, I get a
*Warnings* buffer shown to me saying

  End of file during parsing: #<killed buffer>

  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.

And if I then invoke Emacs with --debug-init, I get a detailed
*Backtrace* buffer with a full Lisp backtrace which tells me which
file was loaded that signaled the error.  Does that work for you?

We added the --debug-init command-line option precisely for this
purpose.

Message #11 received at 80063 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Christoph Göttschkes <christoph.goettschkes <at> posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 80063 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#80063: 31.0.50; End of file during parsing does not report
 a file name
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2025 20:04:26 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> When I perform this experiment with my real init file, I get a
> *Warnings* buffer shown to me saying
>
>   End of file during parsing: #<killed buffer>
>
>   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.
>
> And if I then invoke Emacs with --debug-init, I get a detailed
> *Backtrace* buffer with a full Lisp backtrace which tells me which
> file was loaded that signaled the error.  Does that work for you?
>
> We added the --debug-init command-line option precisely for this
> purpose.

When I try it with a real .emacs.d/init.el setup, I see what you are
saying.  It seems you have to use `use-package' (maybe setting
`abbrev-file-name' with something like `custom-set-variable' is also
good enough) and the error has to be in an abbrev file.  Maybe it also
happens in other places, but that was my setup.  Here is a way you
should hopefully be able to reproduce it, which replicates my real
init.el:

Create an init.el:

;;; init.el -*- coding: utf-8; lexical-binding: t -*-
(use-package abbrev
  :ensure nil
  :custom
  (abbrev-file-name "~/.emacs.d/test.el"))

and a test.el:

(define-abbrev-table 'new-abbrev-table
  '(()
  "A new abbrev table")

and early-init.el:

;;; early-init.el -*- coding: utf-8; lexical-binding: t -*-
(setq inhibit-x-resources t)

With this setup, I don't get any warnings buffer or a debugger when
running with --debug-init.  The early-init.el is not needed (works
without it in emacs -nw), but Emacs doesn't like my .Xresources.

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