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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dieter Jurzitza <dieter.jurzitza@t-online.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: small issue with emacs customization
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:33:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr6ejtfrp.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803091919.23157.dieter.jurzitza@t-online.de> (Dieter Jurzitza's message of "Sun, 9 Mar 2008 19:19:23 +0100")

> when I enter the emacs-customization menu, move forward from wp-group to 
> tex to auctex and try to modify Tex Pdf Mode from "off" to "on" and say "save 
> for future sessions" I get an error about unmatched parentheses.

> The Message buffer tells me:
> forward-sexp: Scan error: "Unbalanced parentheses", 996, 7860

> The error is caused by the modify-syntax-entry - line in .gnu-emacs-custom:
> <more commands>
>          ;; several comments here ...
>          (modify-syntax-entry ?" "w")

You need to escape the " in ?" -> ?\"

Sadly enough Emacs's syntax-tables aren't powerful enough to describe
email lisp syntax.


        Stefan




      reply	other threads:[~2008-03-10  3:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-09 18:19 small issue with emacs customization Dieter Jurzitza
2008-03-10  3:33 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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