From: rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: catching parenthesis errors in elisp
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:43:39 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9420ff97-ba0c-4c83-b9a3-dce1462ef8b2@z14g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: barmar-4DBDA8.22470912062009@mara100-84.onlink.net
On Jun 13, 7:47 am, Barry Margolin <bar...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> Re-indent the new file, and then diff it against the original that you
> modified. Look for places where the change to a line is the amount of
> indentation. That suggests a parenthesis problem right before that
> (unless the intent of your change was to nest a block of code within
> something new).
>
Giorgos suggestion of using syntax coloring and yours of re-indenting
and re-checking are what I am trying (before hearing Pascal and
redoing it with paredit)
Are there some settings/modes to make white-space diffs standout
better?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-13 6:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-12 7:05 catching parenthesis errors in elisp rustom
2009-06-12 9:57 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2009-06-12 10:18 ` Tim X
2009-06-12 11:02 ` rustom
2009-06-12 10:26 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2009-06-12 11:55 ` Xah Lee
2009-06-12 12:06 ` rustom
2009-06-12 12:24 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-06-12 12:25 ` rustom
2009-06-12 15:32 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-06-13 2:47 ` Barry Margolin
2009-06-13 6:43 ` rustom [this message]
2009-06-13 1:04 ` Joe Fineman
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