Re: catching parenthesis errors in elisp

[Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>]

Hi,
you can try to use:
C-M f ==> forward-sexp
or
C-M d ==> down-list
or
C-M n ==> forward-list

starting to the beginning of your defun with a big prefix arg 
(e.g C-u4567 C-M f)
You will have an error giving you the exact position of your error.

If you have many functions and you don't know which one have error,
use C-M e in the same way, it will stop on the wrong defun.
Then use the above commands as described.

Hope that help.

rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

> Im hacking on a 700 line elisp function.
> While doing some (fairly mechanical) cut-paste operations it looks
> like either Ive got a parenthesis or a quote (most likely double quote
> but could also be single quote) error.
>
> Any suggestions on how to catch such errors?
>

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