From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: ndame <emacsuser@freemail.hu>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Is there a reason why iinvalid-read-syntax doesn't give me the location of the error?
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 15:59:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rxxdqkn.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AxwYKQ.ZaaBVMLXAAlk.zvffFt679MgjCrVrEyT@freemail.hu> (ndame's message of "Wed, 7 Aug 2019 15:40:52 +0200 (CEST)")
ndame <emacsuser@freemail.hu> writes:
> I wonder why the error message doesn't give me the location of the
> error like scan-error. I have to bisect the file to find the bad part.
I don't have the answer to your question, only a workaround: turn on
debug-on-error and eval. When the debugger pops up, switch to the
source code buffer. Point will be likely near the problem (AFAICT
`read' just leaves point where it gave up).
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-07 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-07 13:40 Is there a reason why iinvalid-read-syntax doesn't give me the location of the error? ndame
2019-08-07 13:59 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2019-08-07 14:17 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-08-07 14:34 ` ndame
2019-08-08 8:10 ` Stefan Monnier
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=871rxxdqkn.fsf@web.de \
--to=michael_heerdegen@web.de \
--cc=emacsuser@freemail.hu \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.