From: Michael Heerdegen via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 70039@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#70039: 30.0.50; list-packages install: Invalid read syntax: "#"
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 12:51:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zfuh2r4k.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvjzlmxif4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:34:15 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> > the problem disappears. This commit causes a destruction of my custom
> > file when it gets pp-filled, by adding newlines into #N# syntaxes, like
> > #1# => #1\n#.
>
> I pushed a patch to `master` which should fix this problem
Works for me, thanks.
> , but ... this is nasty. I was thinking "how quickly one forgets how
> hard it is to parse backward" (thinking back to the time where I
> worked on `comment-backward`), but while testing I came across a
> similar problem that occurs because of the (forward) `scan-sexps`
> behavior, so it's even worse than that.
We call this a "wasps' nest" in Germany (of course using German words),
and I make this experience often.
Anyway, if you come along fixing Bug#24542, that would be - it would be
one more wasp less...
Michael.
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2024-03-27 21:10 bug#70039: 30.0.50; list-packages install: Invalid read syntax: "#" Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-28 19:34 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-03-29 11:51 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
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