The problem is with paredit-mode. I will open an issue with the developer. Again very sorry to have bothered you with this. Ian On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 11:47 AM Ian Perryman wrote: > Duh! > > My bad.... I did not test that and sure enough it works fine when emacs is > started "emacs -Q" > > My bad.... please close issue. I will try to find what package I use that > causes this issue. > > Sorry for the spam :-( > > Ian > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 10:40 AM Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > >> Ian Perryman writes: >> >> > Seems the elisp mode gets confused with the attached file. >> > >> > The message: >> > >> > File mode specification error: (user-error Unmatched bracket or quote) >> > >> > Is displayed and the cursor is put to 4685,12 >> >> I'm unable to reproduce this bug with any of the Emacs versions I have >> here, starting with emacs-26.3. >> >> Is this bug reproducible starting from "emacs -Q"? >> >> -- >> (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) >> bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no >> > > > -- > Ian Perryman > XtremeEDA Corp > 613-728-5912 x210 > 200-25 Holland Ave, > Ottawa, ON, > K1Y 4R9 > -- Ian Perryman XtremeEDA Corp 613-728-5912 x210 200-25 Holland Ave, Ottawa, ON, K1Y 4R9