Hi all, I'm sure that this is the same bug as bug #50043, #58148, #58396 In bug #58356, Stefan Monnier writes: >Lars Ingebrigtsen [2022-10-11 20:27:42] wrote: >> Stefan Monnier writes: >>> Because that's the sort of error you can get if you try to macro-expand >>> code that's syntactically invalid. E.g. try to compile a file with >>> >>> (add-to-list x) >>> >>> and you should see a similar error. For `elisp--local-variables`, >>> syntactically invalid code is the normal case (more or less) both >>> because it's used when we're in the middle of writing the code, and also >>> because of how it works (it takes the code from beginning-of-defun up >>> to point and throws away whatever follows, just adding enough closing >>> parens that the resutling string is `read`able). >> >> I see. >> >> Shouldn't this function then be suppressing all errors while it's doing >> this exploratory macro-expansion stuff? > >Yes (plus silence the messages plus avoid compiler macros). Here is a simple workaround: (require 'loadhist) (defun cmacro-ignore-elisp-witness (oldfn form &rest args) "Add this advicing function around compiler macros to ignore `elisp--witness--lisp'" (unless (eq 'elisp--witness--lisp (car args)) (apply oldfn form args))) (defun cmacro-add-advice (file-or-entry) "Add `cmacro-ignore-elisp-witness' to compiler macros in FILE or in ENTRY from `load-history'" (let ((entry (if (stringp file-or-entry) (file-loadhist-lookup file-or-entry) file-or-entry))) (dolist (cell (cdr entry)) (when-let* (((consp cell)) ((eq 'defun (car cell))) (symbol (cdr cell)) ((symbolp symbol)) (cmacro (get symbol 'compiler-macro)) ((not (advice-member-p #'cmacro-ignore-elisp-witness symbol)))) (advice-add cmacro :around #'cmacro-ignore-elisp-witness))))) ;; Advicing existing compiler macros (dolist (entry load-history) (cmacro-add-advice entry)) ;; And the ones in the future (add-hook 'after-load-functions #'cmacro-add-advice) (dolist (entry load-history) (cmacro-add-advice entry)) (add-hook 'after-load-functions #'cmacro-add-advice) Or maybe edit `byte-run--set-compiler-macro', to change the `*--anon-cmacro' and to advice the `compiler-function'.