From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#1187: 23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:58:17 +0200 Message-ID: <48F8A809.2070903@gmail.com> References: <00f801c92fd5$54f26100$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , 1187@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224256257 13988 80.91.229.12 (17 Oct 2008 15:10:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:10:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lawrence Mitchell To: Eli Zaretskii , 1187@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 17 17:11:51 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KqqzN-0004IO-DE for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:11:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48880 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KqqyH-0006qb-Rs for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:10:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kqqxu-0006Y7-LN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:10:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kqqxr-0006UC-Lo for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:10:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42255 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kqqxr-0006TY-4y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:10:07 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:58459) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kqqxp-00057C-N6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:10:06 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m9HFA0YW002404; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:10:00 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m9HF56rW001347; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:05:06 -0700 X-Loop: don@donarmstrong.com Resent-From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:05:06 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: don@donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 1187 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 1187-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B1187.122425558531708 (code B ref 1187); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:05:06 +0000 Original-Received: (at 1187) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 17 Oct 2008 14:59:45 +0000 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net (ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net [80.76.149.213]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m9HExe7j031702 for <1187@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:59:42 -0700 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-87.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.87]:62763 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Kqqn9-0001ul-7Z; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:59:21 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! 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X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1Kqqn9-0001ul-7Z 0d99be2aebc073f7bcd03909e1034c37 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:10:09 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:21607 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Lawrence Mitchell >> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:30:24 +0100 >> Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org >> >> Drew Adams wrote: >>> Library vline.el can be read fine in Emacs 22, but Emacs 23 raises an >>> error, saying Invalid read syntax: "?". >> The following sequence of events works for me in >> >> GNU Emacs 23.0.60.4 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll >> bars) of 2008-10-07 on lamacq.ph.ed.ac.uk >> >> $ wget http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/download/vline.el \ >> -O /tmp/vline.el >> >> $ LANG=C emacs -Q --eval '(load-file "/tmp/vline.el")' >> LANG=C so that current-language-environment is "ASCII" >> and default-buffer-file-coding-system is nil. >> >> Successfully prints: >> Loading /tmp/vline.el (source)...done > > For me, the file vline.el downloaded from the above address loads > successfully even without setting LANG to "C". Just a simple "C-x > C-f" works and doesn't throw any errors. > > Either the version of vline.el Drew used is different, or something > else is at work here. Drew, are you using the patched EmacsW32 binary > produced by Lennart? If so, perhaps it's something that is being > triggered by the patches. Or maybe something in Drew's .emacs > customizations? I think Drew is using the unpatched version. And I can see this problem with both the unpatched and the patched version. However there might be a misunderstanding. There is no error while reading vline.el. The error comes when I do eval-buffer.