From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 16985@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16985: indent-for-tab-command error messages could mention line numbers
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:43:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvha735yb0.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a9cxrjda.fsf@jidanni.org> ("積丹尼 Dan Jacobson"'s message of "Tue, 11 Mar 2014 02:36:33 +0800")
> TAB (translated from <tab>) runs the command indent-for-tab-command,
> Its messages,
> forward-sexp: Scan error: "Unbalanced parentheses", 1970, 1
> would be improved if they could also mention line numbers and not just
> apparently byte numbers. E.g.,
> Unbalanced parentheses at line 34 column 33.
Traditionally TAB does not signal an error for unbalanced parentheses.
It may indirectly signal such a problem by indenting to "a weird place".
IOW, please tell us in which case you got the above error, so we can
catch it and turn it into a non-error.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-12 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-10 18:36 bug#16985: indent-for-tab-command error messages could mention line numbers 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2014-03-12 13:43 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-03-12 18:25 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2014-03-12 23:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-03-13 1:46 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2014-04-02 19:49 ` Stefan Monnier
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