From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Error: End of file during parsing Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 07:42:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83k05pjov1.fsf@gnu.org> <875yh96r2n.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16956"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:JGLdaxWVCmMgTku0NlHhkq9iOy4= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 28 15:36:17 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1odXEW-0004GY-Mt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2022 15:36:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44810 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1odXEV-0000yn-D5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2022 09:36:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59544) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1odVUw-0001dG-EZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2022 07:45:08 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:51978) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1odVUv-0007Or-4W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2022 07:45:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1odVUs-0003Wm-3G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2022 13:45:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:139661 Archived-At: >> If a file contains N open parens and N+1 closing parens, or the other >> way round, Emacs can't even know or conclude what the programmer >> actually wanted to write. This kind of problem requires some manual >> error searching by the programmer. > > I am manually using the number guessing method: Try `M-x check-parens RET` Stefan