From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thorsten Jolitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: edebug-syntax-error when instrumenting working cl-defun Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 12:45:36 +0200 Message-ID: <87oavku2zz.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1408185985 12412 80.91.229.3 (16 Aug 2014 10:46:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 10:46:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 16 12:46:18 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XIbV2-0000LP-P4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 12:46:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34990 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XIbV2-00024S-CY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 06:46:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57620) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XIbUk-00024J-Ce for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 06:46:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XIbUc-0006Mk-Pk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 06:45:58 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54449) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XIbUc-0006Mf-J2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 06:45:50 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XIbUa-0000AP-W9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 12:45:49 +0200 Original-Received: from g231234073.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.231.234.73]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 12:45:48 +0200 Original-Received: from tjolitz by g231234073.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 12:45:48 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 41 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: g231234073.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sGeMKyT2nyPRUv9kzSGKUtFZeNE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99234 Archived-At: Hi List, this function can be evaluated and seems to work: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (defun* foo (x &optional y &rest args &allow-other-keys) (list x y args)) #+end_src #+results: : foo #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results raw (foo 1 2 :key1 'val1 :key2 'val2) #+end_src #+results: (1 2 (:key1 val1 :key2 val2)) but when trying to instrument it for edebug with C-u C-M-x I get this error: ,---- | edebug-syntax-error: Invalid read syntax: "Failed matching", ([&rest | arg] [&optional ["&optional" cl-&optional-arg &rest cl-&optional-arg]] | [&optional ["&rest" arg]] [&optional ["&key" [cl-&key-arg &rest | cl-&key-arg] &optional "&allow-other-keys"]] [&optional ["&aux" &rest | &or (symbolp &optional def-form) symbolp]]) `---- Where is the bug here - in my function definition, in cl-defun or in edebug? And, given the function definition is valid, how could I debug it anyway? -- cheers, Thorsten