From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Debugger output: where to look for its explanation? Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 18:01:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <90f11922-7559-491a-bff9-b2c99508d6f8@default> References: <874mp4iv1g.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427590898 31316 80.91.229.3 (29 Mar 2015 01:01:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 01:01:38 +0000 (UTC) To: Marcin Borkowski , Help Gnu Emacs mailing list Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 29 03:01:25 2015 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 1Yc1bP-0002A9-7f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 03:01:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55614 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yc1bO-0005Y0-Ia for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2015 21:01:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34481) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yc1bE-0005Td-EL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2015 21:01:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yc1bB-0001zC-8f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2015 21:01:12 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:35371) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yc1bB-0001z6-1U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2015 21:01:09 -0400 Original-Received: from userv0021.oracle.com (userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id t2T11698012844 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 29 Mar 2015 01:01:06 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0121.oracle.com (aserv0121.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by userv0021.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t2T115Tt011185 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Sun, 29 Mar 2015 01:01:06 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0016.oracle.com (abhmp0016.oracle.com [141.146.116.22]) by aserv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t2T115xq022922; Sun, 29 Mar 2015 01:01:05 GMT In-Reply-To: <874mp4iv1g.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8.2 (807160) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 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:103418 Archived-At: > so I got this as a *Backtrace*: >=20 > 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. 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.