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: backward-sexp throws scan-error "Unbalanced parentheses", but forward-sexp works Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 18:44:41 -0500 Message-ID: References: <7P2hvHIAuBtvvAp5Gg8L9eq2f8SRRltOKMqGLvfvTOjSjgxKT3tp93lKU0v1WHJfzDudElnNlUyQDuvjo6L_JLtWEVsb1FuiclveZp_i9T0=@protonmail.com> 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="7064"; 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: sha1:3HPcB5lBkIzY7tf9J5XDVW0tvog= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 20 00:47:20 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 1nAKff-0001i9-Mk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 20 Jan 2022 00:47:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46410 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nAKfe-0000Mt-7B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2022 18:47:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:55524) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nAKdI-0000Ln-Mh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2022 18:44:52 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:41654) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nAKdE-0001wJ-9G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2022 18:44:49 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nAKdC-00099r-NI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jan 2022 00:44:46 +0100 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: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.248, 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:135458 Archived-At: > I made a diff compared to my installed version and apparently the > new, working version adds the `after-change-functions` which you wanted > to remove among other things . (diff attached) I didn't quite remove it: I replaced it with something that has a similar effect but without touching that var. > So the problem went away, because I upgraded to the latest version, > which is good, but I'm still wondering how the syntax parser got > confused because of indentation stuff. Good question. Stefan