From: Dieter Jurzitza <dieter.jurzitza@t-online.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: small issue with emacs customization
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 19:19:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803091919.23157.dieter.jurzitza@t-online.de> (raw)
Dear listmembers,
when I enter the emacs-customization menu, move forward from wp-group to
tex to auctex and try to modify Tex Pdf Mode from "off" to "on" and say "save
for future sessions" I get an error about unmatched parentheses.
The Message buffer tells me:
forward-sexp: Scan error: "Unbalanced parentheses", 996, 7860
The error is caused by the modify-syntax-entry - line in .gnu-emacs-custom:
<more commands>
;; several comments here ...
(modify-syntax-entry ?" "w")
<more commands>
No error happens at startup time, emacs loads and (at least seems to ...)
accept the command, however, the customization - save function does not.
Googling around I found a potential hint in cobol-mode.el:
(modify-syntax-entry ?\" "." st) ; wiki \" bug workaround comment
but this made nothing really clearer to me .... should I modify ?" into ?
\" ???
User error or issue with the customization function?
Could some gentle soul shine some light on this?
Thank you very much for looking into this,
take care
Dieter Jurzitza
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2008-03-09 18:19 Dieter Jurzitza [this message]
2008-03-10 3:33 ` small issue with emacs customization Stefan Monnier
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