From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 1187@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Cc: Lawrence Mitchell <wence@gmx.li>
Subject: bug#1187: 23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:58:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48F8A809.2070903@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u8wsnmku7.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Lawrence Mitchell <wence@gmx.li>
>> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:30:24 +0100
>> Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
>>
>> Drew Adams wrote:
>>> Library vline.el can be read fine in Emacs 22, but Emacs 23 raises an
>>> error, saying Invalid read syntax: "?".
>> The following sequence of events works for me in
>>
>> GNU Emacs 23.0.60.4 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll
>> bars) of 2008-10-07 on lamacq.ph.ed.ac.uk
>>
>> $ wget http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/download/vline.el \
>> -O /tmp/vline.el
>>
>> $ LANG=C emacs -Q --eval '(load-file "/tmp/vline.el")'
>> LANG=C so that current-language-environment is "ASCII"
>> and default-buffer-file-coding-system is nil.
>>
>> Successfully prints:
>> Loading /tmp/vline.el (source)...done
>
> For me, the file vline.el downloaded from the above address loads
> successfully even without setting LANG to "C". Just a simple "C-x
> C-f" works and doesn't throw any errors.
>
> Either the version of vline.el Drew used is different, or something
> else is at work here. Drew, are you using the patched EmacsW32 binary
> produced by Lennart? If so, perhaps it's something that is being
> triggered by the patches. Or maybe something in Drew's .emacs
> customizations?
I think Drew is using the unpatched version. And I can see this problem
with both the unpatched and the patched version.
However there might be a misunderstanding. There is no error while
reading vline.el. The error comes when I do eval-buffer.
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[not found] <jwv3aivjkhw.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org>
2008-10-16 21:22 ` bug#1187: 23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax Drew Adams
2008-10-16 23:41 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-10-17 0:00 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-17 8:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-17 8:36 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-10-17 9:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-17 8:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-17 14:26 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-17 12:30 ` Lawrence Mitchell
2008-10-17 13:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-17 14:40 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-17 15:53 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-17 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-17 14:58 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-10-17 15:18 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-17 15:58 ` Lawrence Mitchell
2008-10-17 16:09 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-17 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-17 16:21 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-17 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-20 10:28 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-20 10:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-10-21 2:40 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-10-21 4:46 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-17 15:55 ` bug#1187: marked as done (23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax) Emacs bug Tracking System
[not found] ` <handler.1187.D1187.122425837312105.notifdone@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>
2008-10-17 16:48 ` bug#1187: closed by Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> (Re: bug#1187: 23.0.60; " Drew Adams
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