error: Non-hex digit used for Unicode escape

[Charlie Turner]

Hello,

Running Windows Vista 64 bit, service pack 1
GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.0.6001)

I get the above error message in my *Messages* buffer on startup. Here
is the version I get when I run "runemacs.exe --debug-init":

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Non-hex digit used for Unicode escape")
eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*> nil
"c:/Users/Charles/.emacs.d/init.el" nil t) ; Reading at buffer
position 46
load-with-code-conversion("c:/Users/Charles/.emacs.d/init.el"
"c:/Users/Charles/.emacs.d/init.el" t t)
load("c:/Users/Charles/.emacs.d/init" t t)
#[nil " พ

Contents of c:/Users/Charles/.emacs.d/init.el

(server-start)
(setq default-directory "C:\Users\Charles")
(setq inhibit-startup-message t)
(fset 'yes-or-no-p 'y-or-n-p)
(setq make-backup-files nil)

Thank you for your time.

Regards,

--
Charlie Turner.

[Charlie Turner]

It's the line (setq default-directory "C:\Users\Charles") thats
causing the problem. (cd "C:\Users\Charles") raised the same error
too.

2009/5/9 Charlie Turner <charlie....@googlemail.com>:

--
Charlie Turner.

[Anselm Helbig]

Hi!

> It's the line (setq default-directory "C:\Users\Charles") thats
> causing the problem. (cd "C:\Users\Charles") raised the same error
> too.

You have to escape backslashes in strings like this:

(cd "C:\\Users\\Charles")

See (info "(emacs) Init Syntax") for some more hints.

Regards,

Anselm

--
Anselm Helbig
mailto:anselm.helb...@googlemail.com