From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
To: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Debugger output: where to look for its explanation?
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 15:03:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871tk8hs5h.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <90f11922-7559-491a-bff9-b2c99508d6f8@default>
On 2015-03-29, at 03:01, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> so I got this as a *Backtrace*:
>>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (scan-error "Containing expression ends
>> prematurely" 2959 2959)
>
> No doubt someone will give you interesting details about the info
> in the backtrace.
I would hope! It seems this is not very well documented in the Emacs
manual.
> FWIW, whenever I get that error message it's pretty clear what the
> problem is, because I was evaluating a sexp (so I know which one is
> problematic). It's typically because I forgot a right paren somewhere.
Not really in this case -- I was writing a function which analysed the
code. More precisely, given that the point was somewhere in a string,
the function decides whether it's a docstring or not. (It is part of my
SLOC counting library.) But I agree, it *was* clear where the problem
was. But thanks anyway!
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-29 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-28 23:03 Debugger output: where to look for its explanation? Marcin Borkowski
2015-03-29 1:01 ` Drew Adams
2015-03-29 13:03 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2015-03-30 7:00 ` Nicolas Richard
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